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Darwin's Finches (1961)

1961 · Short film · 10 min

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With study guide Executive producer, Herbert Schick; scientific consultants, Thomas Howell, Robert I. Bowman Discusses Charles Darwin's voyage to the Galapagos Islands and his observations of the animals on the islands which resulted in his reasoning that variation and natural selection are important in the formation of new species. Explains that the modern conception of the origin of new species of plants and animals dates from the publication in 1859 of Darwin's book The origin of the species

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