It was on this day in 1831 that Charles Darwin set sail from England on the HMS Beagle. Darwin’s biology professor had recommended that he go on the upcoming voyage touring the Galapagos Islands and South America, but his father was against the dangerous trip. Darwin went anyway, and he explored the rainforests and was amazed by the plants and animals that he found. He returned to England, and he thought about what he had seen and developed his theory of evolution. In his book On the Origin of Species (1859), he wrote: “Probably all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
There is grandeur in this view of life that …
from so simple a beginning endless forms
most beautiful and most wonderful have been,
and are being evolved.”
The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, December 27, 2020
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