to the climate and Productions of the country." Summer 1833 (Voyage of the Beagle) (Birth of a Theory) Darwin rides across the plains of Patagonia with a group of Argentine cowboys, or gauchos.

this corpus establishes R.D. Keynes, emeritus professor of physiology at Cambridge, as an expert on the Beagle voyage." Journal of the History of Biology "An intimate portrait of Darwin the man ...

Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy during the round-the-world voyage of HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Accepted on board as a gentlemanly ...

Scientists challenging the problem-solving capacities of rare birds of prey on the Falkland Islands have found them ...

In September 1835, the Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles from Ecuador. Darwin made detailed notes and collected lots of animals, plants, insects and reptiles. He noted that the ...

As the Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde sailed into Sydney Harbour, it followed the wake of Charles Darwin’s voyage on the ...

By the time he was serendipitously invited to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist, primed for significant discoveries.

Three Harvard students and a tutor are planning to retrace Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle through South America and the Galapagos Islands this summer and make a film of their ...

An international group of scientists plan to recreate Charles Darwin’s five-year sea voyage around the world aboard a replica of the HMS Beagle. They plan to set sail from London in 2014.

St. Jago, one of the Cape Verde Islands, is the first place Darwin disembarks on his Beagle voyage. "The geology of St. Jago," Darwin notes, "is very striking yet simple: a stream of lava formerly ...

On 27th December 1831, HMS Beagle set out from Plymouth under the command ... The ship's geologist and naturalist was Charles Darwin. Darwin kept a diary throughout the voyage in which he recorded his ...