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OCR: DARWIN'S VOYAGE NO THE BEAGLE THE AGE OF 22 Darwin was offered ar unpaid post on an exploratory expedition on H.M.S. Beagle. The voyage took him South America Australia, Africa, and back to Europe, via many islands. He made detailed record of everything he saw His observations ou his visit to the Galapagos Islands were particularly important He noticed that birds on different islands were closely related to each other but had different shaped beaks, depending on what they ate He concluded that the varied species must have developed from common ancestors that had probably reached the islands accident and evolved in their new habitats This was the basis for his theory of evolution island theit