Signed Charles Darwin manuscript on natural selection sells for nearly $900,000 at auction — shattering records for highest price paid for a document belonging to the famed scientist

Dec 10 2022 by Business Insider

 
An image of the Darwin manuscript.

Sotheby's

A signed Charles Darwin manuscript sold for $882,000 at auction, Sotheby's says. Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory.

A one-page manuscript from scientist Charles Darwin fetched a whopping $882,000 at a Sotheby's auction on Friday. 

Donned with Darwin's signature at the bottom, the piece of paper set a record for the most...

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