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basis of all biological inquiry. This paper discusses the relationship between his theory and the idea of the human being. Discussion It seems inconceivable to most people to think of
human beings as a species and not make the connection to the theory of evolution, which automatically brings us to Darwin. (For purposes of this paper, well leave aside those
who refuse evolution and prefer a Biblical explanation for the origin of the human species.) Darwin became interested in natural science in college and in 1831, joined the scientific
expedition aboard the Beagle. Although he was going on the voyage ostensibly as a "gentlemans companion" to Captain Robert FitzRoy, he became fascinated with the flora and fauna of the
lands they visited, and his journal of their voyage is a classic of science. Their stop at the Gal?pagos Islands in particular got him to thinking, because he found that
"mockingbirds differed from one island to another, and on returning to Britain he was shown that Gal?pagos tortoises and finches were also in distinct species based on the individual islands
they inhabited" (Charles Darwin, 2006). He puzzled about why it was that the animals should be so different from island to island, and although he first explained "species distribution in
light of Charles Lyells ideas of centres of creation, [I]n later editions of this Journal he foreshadowed his use of Gal?pagos Islands fauna as evidence for evolution: one might really
fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends" (Charles Darwin, 2006). His voyage brought him face to
face with all kinds of things that he had previously not known, including the harsh rigors of slavery, which led him to the conclusion that perhaps man was not as
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