When Charles Darwin got out of college at the age of 22 he sent on a peregrination to South America. He expected to only go for two years but he actual he sent out for five years. In his time when he was away he saw many different animals. He realized that they were different in the tiniest ways.  So he took them back to England, were Darwin lived at the time. He studied the finches that he gathered. He showed them to ornithologists, they told Darwin that he had a dozen different species of finches and they were different from those seen anywhere else. Darwin examined the beaks of the birds, and he saw how they adapted to eating different kinds of seeds that were on the islands.  By the time Darwin was 30 years of age he already had a theory that when something happens in the environment individuals adapt to the issue and then reproduce and over time you get a new species. When Darwin was older he settle into a more rustic lifestyle, which ultimately led to his death in 1882 at the age of 73.

In the selection the author uses two verses from Charles Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” he says “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form”.  The author used this quote because it explains how Charles Darwin’s new theory is real and that he didn’t just come up with it. The author talks about how Darwin didn’t just want to say his theory with some actual evidence behind it some Darwin did get his evidence and then he supported his theory in his book “On the Origin of Species”.  So then the author uses another quote from Darwin’s book saying that  “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” The author used this quote to even more prove that Darwin’s theory was a fact and not fiction.