The young naturalist Charles English Darwin, after failing in their college careers in medicine and theology (for rural clergy) is dedicated to studying natural history with his friend John Henslow, a priest and botanist. So, he resumed his collections of minerals and insects that collect call from child. The study of plants helps your training in the art and allows his naturalist friend recommended as Captain Robert Fitz Roy, commander of the Beagle expedition ship routes responsible for ascertaining, among other things, around the world. (Rodríguez Acero, 2004)
Image: Charles Darwin, different perspectives. Natural Science Museum in London. "Trends of religions" in: http://www.tendencias21.net/La-evolucion-es-un-hecho, "el-Darwinism-a-teoria_a3508.html
The trip lasts five years and there are many places visited, including Argentina, on the southern tip of America. Among 1835 Darwin 1833 and runs through not only the costs but sailing upstream along rivers and vast plains rides, some deserted and others, very fertile, like the pampas.
Darwin recorded in his expeditions characteristics of the fauna, flora, fossils and geological peculiarities of the territory. Also, records in his "travel diary" stories about the lifestyles of human societies that inhabit these lands. In these comments, the British researcher shows sociological qualities and highlights an interesting facet of his personality.
Overall charge always relevant actions directly naturalist linked to its theory of the origin of species. However, other aspects are very interesting trip which are summarized below:
• Interview with General Juan Manuel de Rosas in the military camp located on the banks of the Colorado River on their journey on horseback from Buenos Carmen de Patagones up Aires (1000 km at the time). His description of the Argentine leader of the lives of the troops and the war of extermination of the natives is valuable and interesting. (Litvinoff, When Darwin met Rosas)
• From Buenos Aires continues north to Santa Fe (470 km) and includes the Governor, General Estanislao López started as a private, of order and cleanliness reign under tight command and regrets that the costs of the Paraná river had not been conquered by his countrymen. (Litvinoff, The Human Factor extinction)
• Consider administration justice and public corruption, with a lack of principles in the ruling class, and recognizes the human field or gaucho conditions far superior to living in cities. . (Litvinoff, The evolutionary feature of corruption)
• With pleasure along the river Deseado, despite its rugged and desolate margins and senses that in the past, the sea covered the region. (Litvinoff, the wonderful desolation)
• You are mistaken, not having yet taken the idea of \u200b\u200badaptation to the human species, in describing the indigenous people who live south of Tierra del Fuego, the Yamana, abject and miserable creatures. Leo, now virtually extinct, sail in canoes far superior to any other built in southern Africa. . (Litvinoff, The adaptation of the human species).
• When crossing the Strait of Magellan, Darwin notes that both sides of the channel fit into each other and think that many years ago the island of Tierra del Fuego was connected to the mainland, as has now been verified (Litvinoff, Beyond the limits of the world).
• From the Pacific, at the foot of the snowcapped mountains that now bear his name, "Cordillera Darwin" provides immense and numerous glaciers and interpret the rocks found on the beach must have been moved by glaciers many more extensive than he saw at that time. . (Litvinoff, between glaciers and cups).
• From Chile across the Andes, return to investigate sites in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. On this trip notes that the Andes are composed mainly of submarine lava and were originally seabed. (Litvinoff, Cape Horn: The Adventure of bending the end of the world).
Image: Charles Darwin Young. In mjrubio.files.wordpress.com /
Reflections
natives south of the Beagle Channel, those Tierra del Fuego, the plain warring with Rosas, the gaucho who fought in the outposts, the natives set out in the pampas, the settlers in Buenos Aires, the people of London: living in a single stage or cultural differences exist enough to categorize levels of evolution?
cultural transformations, from body language to the internet: are explained by natural selection and genetic mutation?
If Patagonia and the Andes emerged from the seabed, if Tierra del Fuego is away from the continent, if the glaciers modify the relief cordillerano: geological and cosmological transformations in general are also part of the process of evolution?
In this case, physical evolution, the Big Bang to the present day, find an answer in the Darwinian ideas?
Mario Hails - February 2010
Bibliography:
Litvinoff, Edgardo, special envoy of the newspaper La Voz del Interior, Cordoba, Argentina. Letters published in 2009. www.lavoz.com.ar, or at: http://blogs.lavozdelinterior.net/forms/frmBlogDesplegado.aspx?NewsId=2484&WbId=164
Rodríguez Acero, Margarita, 2004, foreword to The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Buenos Aires, SA Longseller
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