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Charles Darwins' Great-Great-Grandsons' Message For Humanity
Charles Darwins' Great-Great-Grandsons' Message For Humanity
In 2010, 60 Minutes Australia met Chris Darwin, the great-great-grandson of renowned naturalist Charles Darwin. Chris has made it his mission to help save Australias' endangered species from extinction. 60 Minutes Australia 8 JAN 2024 Charles Darwins' Story Darwin rhapsodized about Santiagos’ tropical fruits, which include papaya. How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands Most travellers following in Darwins’ footsteps go to the Galápagos. But it was here, on a rocky island off the coast of West Africa, that the young naturalist was said to have found his calling. Charles Darwin was 22 years old when he first peeled a banana. “Maukish & sweet with little flavor,” he noted in his journal from Santiago, the main island in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa. He preferred oranges and tamarinds, feasting at every opportunity on tropical fruit after three awful weeks at sea. Darwin was so seasick at the start of his five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle that the captain expected him to jump ship back to England as soon as they touched land. But he found his feet on the island he called St. Jago, where he spent his first hours strolling through coconut groves and “hearing the notes of unknown birds, & seeing new insects fluttering about still newer flowers.” Most travelers questing after Darwin head to the Galápagos Islands, where an entire tourist industry has developed around his legacy. It was the Galápagos where Darwin, according to popular legend, “discovered” natural selection — though, in reality, it was only later in London that he grasped the significance of the finches and other animals he collected there. Still, by the time Darwin reached the Galápagos in 1835, he was a seasoned naturalist who had spent nearly four years on the Beagle. The Beagles base was an islet that Darwin called Quail Island and is known today as Ilhéu Santa Maria. The Darwin who arrived on Santiago on Jan. 16, 1832, was naďve and untested, with only European soil beneath his fingernails. Cape Verde, then a Portuguese colony, gave Darwin his first taste of his own scientific talent. “He caught a glimpse of his own powers and recognized a new kind of desire — the wish to make a contribution to the world of philosophical natural history,” wrote Janet Browne, his biographer.
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