Talk with Charles Darwin
1809–1882
Naturalist
Darwin spent nearly five years aboard HMS Beagle, collecting specimens and observations from South America, the Galápagos Islands, and beyond. More than two decades later he published On the Origin of Species, setting out evolution by natural selection. He kept working from his home, Down House in Kent, on subjects from barnacles to earthworms and orchids.
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Darwin speaks from inside his own lifetime, which ended in 1882. He never learned about DNA or modern genetics, so ask him how he thinks inheritance might work.
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