15/11/2025
🎥 Upcoming Webinar from the Charles Darwin Foundation: Darwin’s “Aha!” Moment in the Galápagos
Join us as Professor Durham uncovers how a young Charles Darwin - traveling aboard the HMS Beagle - first began questioning the idea that species were fixed. Surprisingly, it wasn’t the finches but the island-to-island shift in mockingbirds that sparked his curiosity and challenged the “stability of species.”
This webinar revisits the key observations and cultural encounters that shaped Darwin’s thinking and contributed to his early vision of the “tree of life.”
🌿 Discover the moments that helped ignite evolutionary thought!
During his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Darwin initially viewed the finches of Galapagos as an “inexplicable confusion” and paid them little attention. Instead, he was far more intrigued by the mockingbirds, noticing how they seemed to “replace” one another across the islands he visited. How di...