In our next webinar, GCT Ambassador, author and editor of Galapagos Matters magazine Dr Henry Nicholls will discuss the importance of the Archipelago to Darwin and the impact that his thinking has had on how we see the Islands today.

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.

Join us on Tuesday 27 May to learn more, with the opportunity to put your questions to Henry after his talk. The webinar will be moderated by Tom O’Hara, Communications Manager at GCT.

We will be recording this webinar, so please do register even if you can’t attend, and we will share the recording with you afterwards.