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Charles Darwin Research Station
After arriving at the entrance I understood that the exhibition hall was closed because it was lunchtime, so pay attention to the opening hours (i left them in the tour details section up there).
With that said I moved on to the little pavilion that has Lonesome George inside and had a wonderful moment where my guide, that was sitting on a bench inside just kept falling asleep at every sentence he said about Lonesome George.
To be fair it was 1 pm (probably he just had lunch), it was warm outside and the room was acclimatized so I can understand his situation.
In conclusion, Lonesome George was a giant tortoise found on Pinta Island in 1971 and was the last known individual of his subspecies. He was transported to Santa Cruz island the next year and lived there until 2012 when he eventually passed away.
They tried mating hm with other tortoises to keep the genome alive but failed multiple times.
He lived under the care of Fausto Llerena, a
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Darwinism Definition and Theory
Darwinism is the term for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. In his book, The Origin of Species (1859), Darwin introduced the concept of natural selection. Although Darwin never used the term itself, we can think of the process of natural selection as the “survival of the fittest.”
Fig. 1 - Charles Darwin
In this process, organisms produce multiple offspring, some of which are better adapted to their environment than others. Those offspring that are better adapted are the ones that go on to producera. Over multiple generations then, the species evolves as a whole and may even split into different species (speciation).
Darwinism: The Five Points of Natural Selection
First, let's get an understanding of the five points of natural selection.
| Point | Definition |
| Variation | random mutations occur |
| Inheritance | random mutations passed on to offspring |
| Selection | offspring with the best traits are the ones to • As a young boy, he hated going to school, and his father thought he was a failure. He dropped out of medical school, because he couldn’t see blood. Finally, he decided to become a priest. However, fate decided that this unstable young man would become one of the world’s most famous scientists – a thinker, who would drastically change our understanding of life and nature. At the end of his eventful life he had become an icon of science, a genius of a researcher whose powerful ideas still affect us today. Details:ZDF, 2008 watch on Vimeo Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago in Shrewsb |