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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling

Charles Darwin is so well known he almost needs no introduction. The 19th-century...
February 2015
This portrait of William Dampier hangs in London’s National Gallery in recognition of his contribution to natural history.
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William Dampier - The Pirate Who Collected Plants

Today you can just hop on a plane and be on another continent within a day's time....
December 2017
This 1890 painting of Charles Darwin is on display at the Turin Museum of Human Anatomy.
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Charles Darwin

This 1890 painting of Charles Darwin is on display at the Turin Museum of Human...
Charles Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree appears in his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837).
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Darwin’s Evolutionary Tree Diagram

This 1837 sketch is Charles Darwin’s first diagram of an evolutionary tree. It...
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