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Tirzah Hansen Annotation Paper 2/16/11 AVID Charles Darwin: Rough Draft Charles Darwin was a person who loved to discover and find out the different theories. His voyage to the Galapagos Islands traveling on the H.M.S. Beagle turned out to be a discovery of different species. This is where he studied the different plants and animals for a higher understanding of them. He decided to write a book called the “The Origin of Species”, reflecting on what natural selection was. Readings of Adam Smith which led to Darwin's theories in Evolutionary Biology. The voyage to the Galapagos Islands came after this reading. He decided to make a sketch book with pictures and descriptions of what he observed and this is what sparked his novel “The Origin of Species”. With this expedition, the theory of life before man seems true due to all the evidence presented. There were plenty of clues and facts that were left behind by previous living creatures. The bones and hardened rock safely protected the artifacts. The new discovery of new species was then made clear. Finches seemed to be abundant on the Galapagos Islands, so this was the first assumption that species all are related in some shape of form. For instance, the finches all descended from other birds that were their ancestors, but we only now knows this because of what Charles Darwin discovered and made a given fact. Oct. 1805 - Dec. 1831: Darwin would receive letters of his voyage plans and successful adventures. The achievement of exploring the Island opened up doors for the world. With the unfamiliar location of these creatures the exhilaration seemed endless. Before any of his explorations as an adult he would always go on little trips or fun activities that started his interests. He would go hiking, read books, and seemed to really be amused by chemistry as Tirzah Hansen Annotation Paper 2/16/11 AVID well. With the medical knowledge that he proceeded in when going to Medical school, it made his future easier. He was engaged in the history of animals and the introduction to stuffing what used to be real animals. The Science museums that he would attend helped his understanding of the creatures and their environment. Alfred Russel Wallace was a scientist that inspired Darwin in his evolutions thoughts and theories. In 1858, the two of them made a joint announcement of their discovery about there being an evolution. The “Origin of Species” came into progress and was published by Charles Darwin himself which explained his theory towards evolution. There ended up being conflicts with the thoughts between the people who read it but turned out to be supported enough to become the set standards. Within the book there was the explanation of how homo sapiens were another form of an animal. “The Descent of Man”, and “Selection in Relation to Sex” (1871), were other famous works of literature that he wrote. They discussed the related theories that came about in “The Origin of Species” as well. The thoughts of evolution were extremely common throughout the whole spill of his past experiences with the different species on the Galapagos Islands. When Darwin decided to go on the voyage on the Beagle, he felt such enthusiasm and wanted to carry on with this wonderful adventure. “The feeling was almost of a second birth”, he quotes. With the long rocking of the boat and how the time seemed to pass slowly he would typically be writing in his journal or drawing images of what he saw along the way. When he actually reached the Islands he would get so involved and decided to take up this type of sport more often. About 1,800 miles southwest of the Canary Islands Tirzah Hansen Annotation Paper 2/16/11 AVID the Beagle visited São Tiago, a volcanic island in the Cape Verde Islands. Darwin reasoned that a stream of lava from the ancient volcanoes had flowed over what had been ancient seabed, baking it to form the hard white rock. Darwin also realized that the island's surface had been formed by a succession of volcanic events, not a single dramatic one. His theory of the evolution also followed the ability of adaptation that these creatures go through. The diversity of the different animals and plants shows the variety of these organisms and how they are all unique but are some how related. With the study of these creatures and how they react to their environments shows just how crucial it is for them to survive and what different tactics they use to live this way. The path that each one follows is special and they are naturally born with certain instincts. With such little technology back then, the way to figure out information about the organisms was a bit challenging. When an animal would get involved with a certain activity the way it went about achieving this task will be different then if a totally different creature took part in it as well. With the observations that took place on these islands, it would have been impossible for Darwin to even make a prediction at all. He did try and determine what he would discover, but he was way off. The different ways to study on this island were what he was taught in medical school. He was able to use the techniques and pursued in his expedition this way. Tirzah Hansen Annotation Paper 2/16/11 AVID