On September 15, 1835 (191 years ago), HMS Beagle arrived in the Galápagos Islands, where Charles Darwin spent several weeks observing the archipelago’s volcanic landscapes and distinctive wildlife. He was especially struck by how closely related animals varied from one island to another.
Darwin did not arrive in the Galápagos with a theory of evolution. But the specimens and observations he gathered there became important evidence as he later developed his theory of evolution by natural selection. More than two decades after the voyage, Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859), fundamentally changing how scientists understood the diversity of life…
Source: UBIQUE by American Geographical Society | By Elizaveta Lepikhova
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