Yesterday morning I compiled the post about the Church of England issuing a posthumous apology to Charles Darwin, admitting the church has misunderstood his teachings on evolution. So, for a period yesterday morning, I was absorbed in Charles Darwin ~ not a common occurrence for me.Later, I received some materials to review from a prospective client interested in having me do some marketing writing. I opened the files and scanned them as well as visited the company’s website. The company’s name is Geospiza, which frankly is a name with which I was totally unfamiliar.
Then I found a brief reference on the Geospiza website as to the origin of the name. As it turns out, Geospiza is a genera of the finch family found on the Galapagos Islands and known as Darwin’s Finches, so named because of their importance in development of his theory of evolution and natural selection.
Once again, I consider that to be a relatively obscure connection ~ Darwin and Darwin’s Finches ~ to occur within a few hours of each other, especially considering the relatively little thought I've given to Charles Darwin in my lifetime.
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Coincidence of names,events and facts Dear Greg as always the Universe is ifinite in our conquest to understand and explore it.Let me start with the finches from the Galapagos island.Darwin was part of the HMS"Beagle" and reached the islands 1935.The captain was Robert Fitzroy.The voyage around the world was 5 years.Darwin was only 26 year old but had the cunning observance of scientist.He found out that the mockinbirds differed from island to island.Which lead him to discover how the different enviroments shape the species differently.After his return in England all speciments were analized and was determined that hte mockinbirds were finches.But not only the finches were varying from island to island/16 main islands,6 smaller and 10 rocks/ also the tortoises too.The locals could distinguished from their shell /carapace/marks on wich island they originated.Galapagos giant tortoisee are the largest native tortoises.They can growp to 660 lbs and 4 foot long.Darwin mentioned that it took 6-8 people to lift them.Life expectancy is 150.The giants that were studied from the explorer are still alive!!Here is the silver liniung of this story.The name Islas "Galapagos originated from galapago-"saddle" after the shells of saddlebacked tortoises.So the name of the island,the importannce of the finches and the tortoises are all tight together and played important part in Ch.Darwin works.
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