Like the usual family pressure is not enough, having Charles Darwin as your great great grandfather must hardly be an easy feat. That said, rather than hide from it, Sarah Darwin embraces it openly and audaciously retraces the “emotional” journe, as she calls it, of the HMS Beagle. A biologist herself, Sarah describes how she and her family set sail round the world on the Dutch clipper Stad-Amsterdam, starting at the same port where Charles Darwin embarked around 178 years ago.
Galapagos, here I come!
But what of it, besides the humble reminder of this great man’s adventure that led to the shaping of one of the most revolutionary theories on the origin of the species? According to Sarah, we should be deeply concerned as the current generation is spending half the time in nature than that of the past, numbing them to the power of nature that inspired Darwin in the first place. This no doubt comes at an interesting time where creationism, the movement discounting evolution, is on the rise, and ecological preservation is gaining a new urgency…footsteps perhaps in the right direction?
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