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Voyage of discovery: a historic South American cruise led to groundbreaking findings about the wild kingdom.(Charles Darwin )

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From: SuperScience
Date: 20051001
Author:Chiang, Mona

Why don't polar bears live in a steamy rain forest? Why don't pandas live in the Arctic? It may seem obvious to you that animals in different regions also have different survival traits. But how did they develop these adaptations in the first place? According to Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, scientists didn't begin to find answers until the 19th century. That's when British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) came up with ideas that changed many people's thinking about the different organisms on Earth.

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