Minggu, 08 November 2009

Charles Darwin


Charles darwin was born in 1809 in a small town in England. When he was young, he decided that he wanted to study botany and geology. In 1831, he joined an expedition in Patagonia in South America. Darwin sailed on the British ship, the Beagle, as a scientists. It was his job to collect and record information about the rocks, plants, and animals in South America.

The Beagle sailed across the Atlantic and reached Bahia (now Salvador) in Brazil in spring 1832. Darwin was amazed by the brilliant colors of the flowers and birds he saw. Then they sailed south along the coast. They stopped at places like Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Darwin travelled to the pampas of Argentina and lived among the gauchos. In Patagonia he found fossils of animals which are now extinct.

They sailed to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America and then north along the cost of Chile. Darwin always wrote his notes and collected rocks, fossils, plants, bird, animals and shells everywhere. In September 1835, the Beagle reached the Galapagos Island in the Pacific Ocean, 1000 kilometers west of Equador. Darwin was excited to find very different plants and animals on these Islands.

Darwin arrived home in October 1836. during his long voyage he saw many exciting things. He had a lot of questions in his mind. For twenty years he thought and wrote. He finally published his book “The Origin of Species” in 1859. His ideas of evolution changed our world.

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