Guess Who? You're hanging out on an island, perhaps getting some sun, and BAM! theres a giant turtle walking out of the water, but you notice theres another one behind it, but it looks completely different. Then, you start to notice that this island is swarming with turtles of all different sizes and shapes and colors. You are Charles friggin Darwin and you just discovered the painstaking process of Evolution! Okay, so maybe the scenario didn't pan out exactly like that. But he really was on an island (intentionally) and he really did discover all those turtles (and tortoises) and through years of study and research, he came up with his theory of Evolution.
Starting in 1831, Darwin started traveling to start his research; this included rounding Cape Horn. In 1835, he eventually landed on the Galapagos Islands and ended up staying for two months. The only things Darwin knew about these islands was that (1) it had a very minute human population and (2) the animals that he saw were not the same as the animals he saw in South Africa. As he began his research, he took notice that the tortoises on one island were not the same as the tortoises on a different island. He knew that the animals came from South Africa over a thousand years ago, but he wanted to know why and how. Thus, beginning his marvelous research of Evolution and Natural Selection.
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