Date/Time

Location
Galapagos Islands Resource Center
Garzota II
Guayaquil, Guayas

Details:

The Galapagos Islands Resource Center will hold a book review of the ¨Darwin in Galapagos¨ written by K. Thalia Grant and Gregory B. Estes. Anyone interested in learning about Darwin´s experience in the Galapagos Islands is welcome to join this free event sponsored by the Galapagos Travel blog.

Editorial Review:

The most momentous voyage in modern history is Charles Darwin’s on HMS Beagle, and its acme, as he acknowledged to the end of his days, was the month-plus (September 15–October 20, 1835) spent at the equatorial Galapagos archipelago, during which he collected the specimens and observations with which he forged the cornerstone of evolutionary science, the theory of natural selection. Galapagos Islands residents and researchers Grant and Estes trace Darwin’s steps on the islands more closely than has anyone else. After three exemplary chapters on Darwin before the Beagle, they devote four long chapters to his experience on the four large islands he visited, noting what he found and what he didn’t, or, at least, didn’t remark upon in his immediate journals, notes, and letters. They keep before us throughout the fact that Darwin had no epiphany about evolution at the time; that came later, gradually and subtly. A complement of 201 color and 73 black-and-white illustrations, not available for review, will most probably make this volume the fitting bibliographical capper to the 2009 Darwin bicentenary.

– Ray Olson
Source: Booklist