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This is a 14-slide PowerPoint Presentation about Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle and what he observed.
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Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle
Meet Charles Darwin
• Lackadaisical student
• Lover of nature• Medical school
drop-out
The Voyage of the Beagle
What did he see?
Remains of marine organisms in uniform layers at high
elevations
Bones of mammals that no longer existed
Variation on neighboring islands
Geologic Activity
A Terrible, Destabilizing Sense of Wonder
• Darwin was both a biologist and a geologist on this trip
• Geology dominated his thoughts….land sinking, mountains rising…
• Slow changes to the Earth• Geology was a dynamic thing
When he returned, he collaborated with other
scientists
“I think…”
A Dangerous Idea
Finally
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms
or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according
to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful
have been, and are being, evolved.”