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From
1831 to 1836 Darwin served as naturalist aboard the
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H.M.S.
Beagle on a British science expedition around the
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world.
In South America Darwin found fossils of extinct
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animals
that were similar to modern species. On the
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Galapagos
Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many
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variations
among plants and animals of the same general
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type
as those in South America. The expedition visited
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places
around the world, and Darwin studied plants and
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animals
everywhere he went, collecting specimens for
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further study.
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