EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The name of Charles Darwin and his famous book The Origin of Species will forever be linked with the Galapagos Islands. Although he was only in the Galapagos for five weeks in 1835, it was the wildlife that he saw there that inspired him to develop his Theory of Evolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Of all the scientists to visit the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin has had the single greatest influence. Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England.

Detailed explanation-3: -Galapagos Tortoises and Evolution Lonesome George lived in the Galapagos, a chain of volcanic islands off the coast of Ecuador, in South America-islands that forever changed our understanding of the natural world. While visiting the Galapagos in 1835, British naturalist Charles Darwin observed local plants and animals.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -His groundbreaking theories of evolution were inspired by the subtle differences in types of animals across the islands that have changed our understanding of biology and natural selection.