ARCL 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wallace Line, Wallacea, Natural Selection
4 Feb 2017
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He went to cambridge to learn to be a member of the church. He went on the hms beagle - he was the 3rd choice - to map the coastline of south. Principles of geology - charles lyell"s book. Darwin was dejected at the level of slavery in brazil - erasmus (grandfather) was a slave abolitionist - it offended him to see so much slavery. England abolished slavery while he was on the trip. First exposure to colonizers and the colonized - influenced his ideas. There were 3 slaves on board who had been captured on the last voyage who were returning to start a missionary. There were discrepancies between the way the slaves on board behaved versus the way the natives behaved - one actually rejected the mission education and returned to his original lifestyle. There are animals that exist in the galapagos that exist nowhere else. Galapagos giant tortoise, lizard that forages in the sea.
