By Charles Darwin
Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's 5 years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary incorporated Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the locations he visits. a desirable go back and forth memoir the information that have been later to adapt into Darwin's thought of common choice locate their naissance in Voyage of the Beagle.
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This is a time of loss in which a respect for the continuity of ways of life takes on both a new intensity and a heightened sense of urgency. As discussed in the introduction to this book, with current rates of extinction estimated to be somewhere between 100 and 1,000 times “normal” background levels, the current loss of Earth’s diversity may be on a scale not experienced since the extinction of the dinosaurs roughly 65 million years ago (Aitken 1998; Primack 1993). In short, we may be ushering in the sixth mass extinction event since “complex” life evolved on this planet (and, with it, the fossil record that enables paleontologists to sift through life’s history and identify extinction events).
Temporalities converge in this meeting of bodies, each carrying histories and presaging futures inscribed in them by evolutionary inheritances and/or the processes of their design and manufacture. Millions of years of albatross evolution—woven together by the lives and reproductive labors of countless individual birds—comes into contact with less than 100 years of human “ingenuity” in the form of plastics and organochlorines discovered or commercialized in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Each year, taking on the dangerous and demanding obstacles of reproduction, albatrosses, like so many of Earth’s other creatures, invest their lives in a generational continuity that exceeds them. In the language of ethics, this striving expresses a clear “interest” on the part of the individual for not only its own continuity, but that of subsequent generations. But a living being and its offspring cannot survive and thrive on their own. For speciated forms of life, like albatrosses, intergenerational continuity requires at a minimum the larger reproductive community that is a species.