LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Darwin set sail on the ship HMS Beagle on December 27, 1831, from Plymouth, England. Darwin was 22 years old when he was hired to be the ship’s naturalist . Most of the trip was spent sailing around South America. There Darwin spent considerable time ashore collecting plants and animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Darwin was 22 years old when he visited the Galapagos Islands on September 1835.

Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Darwin died in 1882 at the age of seventy-three. He is buried in Westminster Abbey in London, England.

Detailed explanation-4: -He arranged for his talented student a place on the surveying expedition of HMS Beagle. Despite the objections of his father, Darwin decided to leave his familiar surroundings at the age of 22. Charles Darwin voyage took five years from 1831 to 1836.

Detailed explanation-5: -First landfall was the volcanic island of St. Jago (now Santiago) in the Cape Verde Islands. After three weeks of seasickness, Darwin threw himself enthusiastically into his first independent fieldwork, identifying rock samples and recording a cross section of the volcanic strata.