Situated around 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the deep Pacific Ocean, it’s little surprise that the Galapagos remained undiscovered and untouched by man until 1535. And even then the discovery was only by chance. This isolation meant that the plant and animal life on the islands developed, or evolved as Charles Darwin quite rightly pointed out, in an incredible and unique way. It was Darwin’s observations of the islands animal life that led to his theories of natural selection and the magnum opus On the Origin of Species in 1859.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:24:23 +0000
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