When did Darwin sail to the Galapagos Islands?

In the year 1831 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) set out on an exploratory voyage in the ship Beagle, heading for South America. The voyage lasted five years and during this time Darwin kept careful notes of everything he saw, in particular the strange animal life on the Galapagos Islands, off the western coast of Ecuador. He was disturbed by the fact that the birds and tortoises of the Galapagos Islands tended to resemble species found on the nearby continent, while inhabits of similar adjoining islands to the Galapagos had quite different animal populations. In London Darwin later learned that the finches he had brought back belonged to a different species, not merely different varieties, as he had originally believed.

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When Charles Darwin first published his theories on evolution they created a sensation, but it took a while before they were accepted.

 

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