In one of his stops during his trip around the world, famed naturalist Charles Darwin stumbled upon an odd fox on an island off the coast of South America. He knew he found an animal that science hadn’t found before (at the time); what he didn’t know, however, was that he just encountered one of the most distinct evidences of rapid evolutionary change that can be found in the area—more than two decades before he finished writing his famous book “On the Origin of Species.”
Even Darwin Had His Off Days—He Missed Evolutionary Evidence That’s Right In Front Of Him
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