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Photo: Close-up of a mural in an Egyptian tomb
Photo: Painting of a battle in the Persian war
Photo: Painting of Vikings at Vinland on Newfoundland
Photo: Painting of the Atlantic journey of Christopher Columbus
Photo: Portrait of Charles Darwin
Photo: The "Lulu," a floating geological laboratory at the Cayman Trench
Photo: Mineral chimney on the ocean floor
Photo: Titanic bow
Photo: Portrait of Charles Darwin
1831: Charles Darwin Sets Sail for South America

On December 27, 1831, the H.M.S. Beagle leaves England on a survey mission to South America with the young naturalist Charles Darwin onboard. On September 15, 1835, the ship arrives at the Galápagos Islands and stays nearly a month. Darwin's observations of the islands' unique flora and fauna lead to his publishing in 1859 of The Origin of Species, an enormously influential book expounding the theories of natural selection and evolution.

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