From CFI Canada,
and from the Canadian Mint,
While Darwin’s tree of life doesn’t have roots, this coin,
an original design by celebrated Quebec actor and singer Caroline Néron, [to celebrate] nature, the beauty of a Canadian winter and the poetic beauty of life on Earth [is evocative of the sketch] employed by Charles Darwin to express the concept of the branching divergence of varieties and then species in a process of common descent from ancestors.