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This is a first edition. Today, Darwin has achieved an almost mythic status. Original copies of The Origin of Species are handled with extreme reverence, whilst specimens he collected are treated almost as relics. Sometimes, however, something collected by Darwin achieves a status beyond what it deserves as zoology curators found when the story of one of his bird collections was pieced together. These are Darwin' s finches. They were collected on his great fiveyear voyage of discovery on The Beagle in the 1830s. They' re often cited as the spark for Darwin' s big idea, his theory of evolution. Variations in the finches' beak shape and size demonstrate how they' d evolved to take advantage of food available in their particular habitat. |
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zhè shì shǒu bǎn wù zhǒng qǐ yuán. rú jīn, dá ěr wén jī hū chéng le shén huà bān de rén wù. rén men huái zhe jìng wèi de xīn qíng fān yuè zhe wù zhǒng qǐ yuán de yuán běn, ér tā shōu jí de biāo běn yě bèi shì wéi gǔ jī. rán ér, dāng dòng wù guǎn zhǔ guǎn men cóng dá ěr wén de mǒu tào niǎo lèi cáng pǐn zhōng pīn còu chū shì qíng yuán wěi shí, fā xiàn tā de mǒu xiē cáng pǐn shì nán fù shèng míng de. 19 shì jì 30 nián dài, dá ěr wén chéng bèi gé ěr hào jiàn zhǎn kāi le wǔ nián de tàn suǒ zhī lǚ, tú zhōng shōu cáng le zhèi xiē què kē biāo běn. rén men yī zhí yǐ wéi, shì tā men gěi le dá ěr wén líng gǎn gòu sī chū le tā de jìn huà lùn. què kē niǎo huì xíng zhuàng hé dà xiǎo de chā bié jiē shì le tā men wèi shì yìng gè qī xī dì de shí wù tè diǎn de jìn huà guò chéng. |