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40. In the fall of 1885, the Galapagos Islands' most famous visitor, who? , arrived on the H.M.S. Beagle and began collecting and observing the archipelago's unique what?

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  1. Briefly, Charles Darwin visited the Galapogos and used the scientific data he gathered there to support his now-famous (then, ignored) theory: survival of the fittest. He observed Galapogos' unique species, and used his data of finches, in particular, to observe how each species of finches or tortoises or hummingbirds filled a different niche to get the most out of the limited resources available.


  2. The voyage of the Beagle brought the survey ship HMS Beagle under captain Robert FitzRoy to the Galápagos on September 15, 1835 to survey approaches to harbors. The captain and others on board including his companion the young naturalist Charles Darwin made a scientific study of geology and biology on four of the thirteen islands before they left on October 20 to continue on their round-the-world expedition. Darwin noticed that mockingbirds differed between islands, though he thought the birds now known as Darwin's finches were unrelated to each other and did not bother labelling them by island.[1] The governor of the prison colony on Charles Island told him that tortoises differed from island to island. Towards the end of the voyage Darwin speculated that the distribution of the mockingbirds and the tortoises might "undermine the stability of Species".[2] When specimens of birds were analysed on his return to England it was found that many apparently different kinds of birds were species of finches which were also unique to islands. These facts were crucial in Darwin's development of his theory of natural selection explaining evolution, which was presented in The Origin of Species.[1

  3. Charles Darwin. he came up with the theory of natural selection

  4. The most likely answer is Charles Darwin, but it could be Robert FrizRoy, I think...

  5. hahaha dunno

  6. Charles Darwin, and birds.

  7. it was charles darwin

  8. Charles Darwin, I believe. (famous for natural selection theory) He observed the unique organisms (animals) there, mostly birds.

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