In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and ...

John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill helped Darwin preserve the birds that fermented his ideas about evolution. Many Black ...

Charles Darwin sized up the manakin in The Descent of Man. In his 1871 account of the bird, he wrote: “The diversity of the sounds … and the diversity of the means for producing such ...

Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy ... The most famous of the discovered species are undoubtedly the Galapagos finches, commonly known as ...

Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote a short ... Consider, for instance, the famous finches of the Galápagos. Darwin could see that their beaks were variously shaped—some broad ...

On the 200 anniversary of Charles Darwin birth and in the same month of 1833, when HMS Beagle anchored in the Bay of Maldonado, Uruguay, a volunteer rediscovered in Cambridge a bird egg collected ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous flora ... Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like waved albatrosses and blue ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although not in ...

But the theory that made Darwin famous didn't come to him overnight, he didn't have an Isaac Newton moment where a bird flew into his face and he was like, Charles Darwin: Ah! You know what?

How Darwin changed the world Darwin’s finches evolve before scientists ... In 1831, a young British naturalist called Charles Darwin joined the crew of the HMS Beagle to accompany the ship ...