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Darwins Sea Change - College Paper

Darwins Sea Change

In the mid 1830's, The British ship the Beagle set out to survey the shores of Chile, Peru and other islands in the Pacific; and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements around the world. The ship's captain was Captain Fitzroy. The young, religious captain was set out for five long years to run the Beagle's crew. Unfortunately, the role of captain did not allow any social contact with the other ship's crew mates other than work. This meant that Fitzroy had to dine alone, and would only talk to the other officers about the ship's business. The 26 year old captain also knew how bad it was for your mental health to be aboard a ship for five whole years with practically nobody to talk ...

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the captain but said "yes" anyhow. Darwin only lasted a year or so as the "natural historian", before he took over Robert McKormick's job. McKormick was the ship's naturalist, and did not get along with Darwin at all. When Darwin did take over (which did not take long), McKormick actually left the ship and went back to Britain. Even before Darwin became the naturalist, he did more then just eat dinner with the captain to keep him sane. He would collect specimens in the foreign lands, and do his experiments.
When he became the naturalist though, Darwin gained the right to do more than what the captain wanted him to. This led to many fights between the two. The captain actually made him leave their dinner one time over a simple disagreement on slavery. It is believed now that the only reason that the two even talked was for Fitzroy's sake.
This was not the only change in Darwin though. It did not just effect the friendship between him and Fitzroy. Darwin began to do more research ...

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Added: 11/13/2008 06:49:10 PM
Category: World History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 583
Pages: 3

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