VIDEO: Darwin Voyage to Rio Retraced
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 18:56
in Astronomy & Space
Stunned by slavery and "the glories of the vegetation of the tropics," Charles Darwin explored Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state in 1832—a voyage now being retraced with the help of one of his great-great-grandsons.
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