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The British naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England,
aboard the HMS Beagle, ending a five-year surveying expedition of the
southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Visiting such diverse places as
Brazil, the Galapagos Islands, and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an
intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, and geology of many lands. This
information proved invaluable in the development of his theory of
evolution, first put forth in his groundbreaking scientific work of
1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Darwin’s theory argued that organisms gradually evolve through a process
he called “natural selection.ö In natural selection, organisms with
genetic variations that suit their environment tend to propagate more
descendants than organisms of the same species that lack the variation,
thus influencing the overall genetic makeup of the species. His Origin
of Species, the first significant work on the theory of evolution, was
greeted with great interest in the scientific world but was attacked by
religious leaders for its contradiction of the biblical account of
creation.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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