Charles Darwin, was an English naturalist who significantly influenced modern scientific thinking when he published his theory concerning natural selection in 1859. As a young man, Darwin travelled on the HMS Beagle as the resident naturalist and companion to the ship’s captain. A researcher looking into a dusty cabinet in the vaults of the British Geological Survey has discovered a collection of 19th Century slides, showing fossil specimens, some of which were collected by the great man himself.
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