At our webinar on 27 May, Dr Henry Nicholls discussed the importance of Galapagos to Charles Darwin and the impact that his thinking has had on how we see the Islands today.
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When HMS Beagle sailed out across the Pacific towards the Galapagos Islands in 1835, on-board naturalist Charles Darwin was in a state of great excitement.
In just five weeks in 1835, Darwin scraped away at the Galapagos rocks to understand volcanoes like never before, anticipating ideas of continental drift and plate tectonics by more than half a century; his collection of Galapagos plants stunned botanists back in England and inspired him to carry out clever experiments into seed dispersal and the colonisation of oceanic islands; and his observations of giant tortoises, mockingbirds and finches played a key role in the development of the single most important idea in the history of biology: evolution by natural selection.
In this fascinating webinar, GCT Ambassador, author and editor of Galapagos Matters magazine Dr Henry Nicholls discusses the importance of the Archipelago to Darwin and the impact that his thinking has had on how we see the Islands today.
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