Charles Darwin's Beagle diaries
Montevideo 27 July 1832
I had no opportunity of taking a long walk, so that I went with the Captain to Rat island. whilst he took sights. I found some animals & amongst them there was one very curious. At first sight every one would pronounce it to be a snake: but two small hind legs or rather fins marks the passage by which Nature joins the Lizards to the Snakes.
Labels: Beagle diaries, Voyage of the Beagle
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Compelling evidence that he was already on the case in 1832. What captured his imagination, of course, was how to work out the mechanism of the "the passage by which Nature joins...".
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