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The Fate of Wildlife in the Galapagos Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Jean Dorst
Jean Dorst
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Scientific Secretary of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos islands.
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On the 15th of September, 1835, a young naturalist landed on Chatham, the most easterly island of the Galapagos archipelago: he was none other than Charles Darwin, and it was there he first came into contact with the facts over which he pondered during the immortal voyage of the Beagle and which his genius translated into theories on evolution.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1961 , pp. 53 - 59
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1961

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