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Today’s slideshow Doodle celebrates １Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands, first made famous as a source of inspiration for Charles Darwin’s 2 seminal theories of natural selection. Home to hundreds of unique species of plants and animals from green turtles to 3fur seals, the islands were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site on this date in 1978.

１エクアドル　2影響力のある　3オットセイ　

The Galápagos archipelago, which 4 straddles the 5 equator some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, consists of 19 mostly uninhabited islands and countless 6 islets, formed through volcanic and 7seismic activity over many millennia. Due to their unique geology and isolation, these Pacific islands are home to flora and fauna that can be found nowhere else on the planet, including the giant tortoise depicted first in today’s Doodle−the galápago is the largest living species of tortoise−along with the only penguin species that lives north of the Equator.

4またがる　5赤道 6小島　7地震の

The islands are closely associated with British naturalist Charles Darwin, who arrived on the 8HMS Beagle in 1835 as part of a fateful journey around the world. Here, Darwin observed closely related but highly specialized species of wildlife, like finches with distinctive beaks specialized to their diets−memorialized today with the name “Darwin’s finches.”

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It took Darwin over 20 years after he first observed the islands’ marine iguanas and blue-footed boobies to 9synthesize his observations into his groundbreaking theories of natural selection, published in “On the Origin of Species” in 1859.The fundamentals of his work remain a cornerstone of biological science to this day.

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1978年の5月31日にガラパゴス諸島が世界遺産に登録されたことから、ガラパゴス諸島を称えてとなってました。
昨日ですが・・
写真のカメはこの島に住んでいる一番デカイカメの絵。

進化論唱えたダーウィンとの関係も深く、ダーウィンは1835年に訪れてます。
20年後にようやく「種の起源」という本を完成させます。