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Charles Darwin and his Theory of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin & his theory of Natural Selection On modern day Earth, there are over four million different life forms. Because we live in such a diverse environment it is not rare nor difficult to discover an unknown plant or animal species. Spend a day in the tropical rainforests of South America, turning over logs, looking beneath bark, sifting through the moist litter of leaves, followed by an evening shining a mercury lamp on a white screen, and one way or another you will collect hundreds of different kinds of small creatures. Moths, caterpillars, spiders, long-nosed bugs, luminous beetles, harmless butterflies disguised as wasps, wasps shaped like ants, sticks that walk, leaves that open wings and fly- the variety will be enormous and one of the creatures you come across will almost certainly be undescribed by science. Often the difficulty we face in identification of a new species is finding...

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