In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to ... to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist ...

The ship, launched in 1820, allowed Darwin to make observations that led to his theory of natural selection. The remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle has ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South America and the Galapagos islands. In ...

Charles Darwin, famed for his theory of evolution, profoundly influenced modern biology. Notably, Darwin shared a birthdate ...

Researchers and historians have collected approximately 15,000 letters written both to and by Charles Darwin in an effort to better ... many of the plant specimens collected during Darwin’s HMS Beagle ...

Dhruv Shenai talks to Peter Mason about turning the The Voyage of the Beagle into a piece of travel literature ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been saved from extinction ... potentially saving the species first discovered by Darwin during his epic voyage on HMS Beagle. In 1841, ...

During his famed voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin noted about the Galápagos Islands that “by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago…is that the ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...