On this day in 1831 the HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin a passenger on board, departed the UK for a survey of South America, a voyage Darwin later said, “determined my whole career”.
Charles Darwin’s initial Tree of Life sketch, which appears in his Notebook B, in 1837, shows his early theoretical insight of how a genus of related species might originate by divergence from a starting point (1).
Vardre Deganwy Crown Green Bowling Club 