Essays on Beagle

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A close evaluation of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species reveals that both works have very strong similarities. Walden was published five years before The Origin of Species. Therefore, it can be assumed that Darwin used Thoreau’s postulations as a benchmark while writing his own book. It is difficult to confirm whether Darwin had the opportunity of reading Walden before he wrote his famous book or not. However, the similarities appear as if they were not just random. Although Darwin may have been unaware of Walden and his works ...

Introduction

Charles Robert Darwin was a naturalist born on 12th February 1809 at a place called Shrewsbury in England. However, he died on 19th April 1882 in London. In his lifetime, one of his greatest achievements is about the evolutionary theory of living organisms (Bowler). He was able to achieve this success through the voyage he embarked in 1831. He traveled for five years all over the world with the HMS Beagle. Through his traveling, he was able to study different specimen and thus his evolution theory was developed. This fact caused him to write the book titled as On ...

In one way or the other, both Darwin and Thoreau were pondering over the existence of similarities among human beings. Darwin studied in how human and other organisms were biologically related. He postulated that most of the organisms originated from the same ancestry but evolve over time to become the present different species (Kutschera 82). Darwin also gave a detail on how organisms evolved over time to become what they are today. Similarly, Thoreau examined the emotional relationship among human beings and other species. He gave details on how human beings fit within a natural environment and how they ...