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The Quickening
In 1849, when he was 19 years old, Horatio's store sailed from Boston to the wild of Labrador, Canada on a research expedition alongside a naturalist. It was the early days of embryology, a branch of biology focused on prenatal development of embryos and fetuses. Charles Darwin would soon publish his theory of evolution, drawing a direct line between man and beast.