Changes over time: How did Darwin preserve specimens

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Changes over time: How did Darwin preserve specimens

In this activity students will have the opportunity to investigate how animal and plant specimens were preserved during the time of Darwin’s voyage. Resources in English.

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Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species

Introduction

Learning objectives

To consider the development of scientific methods and thinking over time.

Students’ outcomes

To use scientific discussion and ideas to investigate how biological sampling has developed and changed over time.

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Changes over time: How did Darwin preserve specimens

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Dr. Sylvia Earle and Salome Buglass, Marine Ecologist at the Charles Darwin Foundation are traveling down in the submersible for an exploratory dive in the twilight zone a couple of miles off Wolf Island © Rolex/Franck Gazzola

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