EVOLUTION
MODERN THEORY OF EVOLUTION
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The Galápagos Islands
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The Caribbean
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Western Europe
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North America
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Detailed explanation-1: -He collected many specimens of the finches on the Galapagos Islands. These specimens and his notebooks provided Darwin with a record of his observations as he developed the theory of evolution through natural selection.
Detailed explanation-2: -On September 15, 1835 on the return route across the Pacific, the Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands. Darwin disembarked on San Cristóbal (September 17-22), Floreana (September 24-27), Isabela (September 29-October 2) and Santiago (October 8-17).
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1831, he embarked on a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle after managing to persuade Captain Robert FitzRoy to let him join him as the ship’s naturalist. In 1835, the Beagle arrived in the Galapagos and Darwin spent some time visiting the islands of San Cristóbal, Floreana, Isabela and Santiago to collect specimens.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Galapagos he found a remarkable population of plants, birds and reptiles that had developed in isolation from the mainland, but often differed on almost identical islands next door to one another and whose characteristics he could only explain by a gradual transformation of the various species.