English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Charles Darwin mentions the Galapagos Islands in two sections of his book The Origin of Species. Compared with other sources of information, data collected in this archipelago are not the leading character of his great work. This fact contrasts with contemporary historiography and popular culture, which bestow a central role on these islands in Darwin’s thinking. How and when Darwin solved the “great mystery of mysteries” and, in particular, the role played by his visit to the Galapagos Islands in this regard have become the subjects of a remarkable legend in the history of science. This article, which is based on an analysis of The Origin of Species, aims to understand the role played by the impressions and data collected in the Galapagos Islands in the development of the theory of natural selection. This information was clearly an important source of inspiration, but Darwin did not discover evolution on the islands. The specimens collected in the Galapagos were not the singular key to his theory of evolution as is often portrayed today. Decades of experimentation on domestic species in Britain provided most of the evidence for the development of his theory.

El misterio de los misterios. Las islas Galápagos en Ecuador y la obra “El Origen de las Especies”