The Galapagos Islands
Christy Bosley
Axia College of University of Phoenix
SCI 230
Angela Buffington
March 16, 2008


The Galapagos Islands
The Archipelago de Colon is better known as the Galapagos Islands, who got their name from the Spanish word galapago. This word means “saddle” and refers to the shells of one of the islands’ most famous inhabitants, the Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Wikipedia, n.d.). The Galapagos Islands are a group of volcanic islands located about six hundred miles from Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. This series of islands was the very first World Heritage Site chosen by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO (Nelson, 2007).
An excellent example of this “adaptive radiation” is Darwin’s Finches. In fact, it was his study of these birds which led Charles Darwin to describe this phenomenon. As Darwin explored the Galapagos while on board the survey ship HMS Beagle, he noticed that each island he visited......

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