When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
First Lines: Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
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