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The Zoology Museum at Britain's University of Cambridge said it has discovered an egg collected by Charles Darwin during a South American expedition. Researchers at the museum said Darwin was known to have collected 16 bird eggs during his 1831-1836 expedition on the HMS Beagle, but all of the specimens were believed lost until a volunteer discovered one of the eggs in the museum's Darwin collection, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The brown egg, belonging to the Tinamou bird of Uruguay, is marked with C.
According to New Scientist, Britain’s unlucky Mars probe, Beagle 2, may have met its end due to a miscalculation.
By BRANDON ROBSHAW By David Quammen Phoenix Pounds 7.99 **** Darwin came up with the theory of evolution, right? Wrong. Evolution, if not in the scientific mainstream, was part of the common intellectual currency of his time. His own grandfather espoused a version of it.
Charles Darwin’s collection of research found its way to the Web on Thursday for the first time.
