Everyone who has taken a biology course in their lifetime has learned about the theory of evolution at least once. Charles Darwin explored the sea while on the HMS Beagle and discovered different characteristics between the sa e species m to which opened the door to new encounters in the science world.
In 1809, Charles Darwin was born from a long family tree full of scientists. Everybody knew that Charles was bound to be a scientist, and he became much more than that. At age 16, Charles Darwin got into Edinburgh University, two years later, he enrolled into Christ’s College where the adventures all started. Darwin’s love for natural science spiked John Stevens Henslowe’s interest. He further became Darwin’s mentor and opened many doors for
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This is one of the most important foundations for his theory. While on the Islands, many kinds of questions entered his head. How did these certain animals come here? Why are they so similar, yet so different? Little did he know, his questions would soon be answered once he completed the voyage and returned home to England with his many samples that he collected through the voyage.
In 1836, Charles Darwin arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. Where he then met Dr. Anderson Smith, a well-known natural historian in Africa. After meeting each other, they found out they had both attended the medical school in University of Edinburgh, though they were not there at same time. Anderson and Charles helped each other out by exchanging ideas and observations along with samples. Many of the fossils that Charles had from Africa had been given to him from Dr. Smith’s collection over his stay in Africa.
Cape Town not only introduces Charles to Dr. Smith, but he got introduced to an astronomer by the name of John Herschel, who was visiting Africa to observe the astronomy there. There, Charles Darwin had a very thorough conversation about his observations with Herschel. They shared many ideas on evolution and developed a very close relation
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Which Darwin encountered while on the beagle, which he was ecstatic to see Lyell’s observations in front of him, only making him believe more than he already did.
Every place they went that was near the sea, (everywhere) Darwin found many different kinds of rocks and various parts of the seafloor now on the land, some at high elevations. This helps support the theory that the seafloor can be pushed up. After all of these observations, Darwin wrote to his sisters with much happiness, saying; “I cannot express the delight, which I felt at such a famous winding up of all my geology in S. America. I literally could hardly sleep at nights for thinking over my days work.”
When Darwin was in the lands of Tierra del Fuego, he encountered humans that were naked and lived in way different ways that they did in England. Their faces had actually resembles some of the men aboard the ship. Taking this into consideration, Darwin was stunned that the difference between a “savaged man” and a “civilized man” were a greater difference than that of a wild animal and a domesticated