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Darwin was recommended by a Cambridge professor for the role as Naturalist and companion to the ship's captain, Robert FitzRoy. Darwin collected plants, animals/folssils, and many field notes. In the end the journey changed Darwin's life and the path of Western scientific thinking. The voyage and his collections and observations lead up to his theory of evolution.
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From the HMS Beagle voyage Darwin suspected the environment possibly naturally change species. He used artificial pigeons to cross birds with certain traits to generate a different offspring. He proved this with a pigeon who has exaggerated wings (the picture). -
The first sketches of Darwin's tree of life. The tips of the branches are animals who are alive today and the first growth of the tree is the beginning species. The fallen branches show whole orders, families, and genera who have no living representatives. -
A work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. The book introduced the scientific theory evolution's affects populations over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.
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