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THE GENIUS OF CHARLES DARWIN -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Pigeons cooing]
Now in his 40s, Darwin became a pigeon fancier.
He kept some 90 birds of 16 types,
devoured books on breeding, and attended numerous pigeon shows.
What excited Darwin was the powerful comparison
that could be drawn between domestic breeding
and what he'd observed of nature acting on wild animals,
like the finches he'd collected in Galapagos.
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