The fauna of the Galapagos Islands is attracting tourists in even larger numbers. However, a mosquito carrying West Nile fever brought from the mainland with the tourists could prove more harmful to the animals than the tourists ever will.
Alfred Russel Wallace was in many respects a co-discoverer of the theory of evolution; specifically, the "how" of evolution, i.e., the survival of the fittest. However, he was infinitely gracious to Darwin by laying no claim to Darwin's theory.
Exactly 200 hundred years ago, a man was born who can easily be considered the most influential scientist of all times. Although he was looking forward to an easy life as a country parson, Charles Darwin would become one of the greatest scientists ever.
The original draft of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was recently published online along with his other manuscripts, papers, photographs and notebooks.
