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Darwin Legacy Quiz

Take our ten-question quiz on Charles Darwin and his extraordinary voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle.

Managing Editor, NGM.com Rob Covey <![CDATA[Producer]]> Sabi Chawla <![CDATA[Writer & Researcher]]> Jamie Bussey Flash Developer Stefan Estrada Editing & Styling Nancy Gupton Researcher Marisa Larson /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/darwin-470.jpg Portrait of a young Charles Darwin. Photograph by James L. Stanfield /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/beagle-channel-470.jpg Chilean naval vessel lingers in Beagle Channel near Romanche Glacier, Chile. Photograph by Volkmar K. Wentzel /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/plane-beagle-470.jpg Beagle Channel is a passage between Argentina and Chile. Photograph by James L. Stanfield /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/legacy-quiz-475.jpg The pelt of a mouse that burrowed in pale sand has sublte pigmentation. At the other end of the spectrum, loamy inland soil favored darker fur. Photograph by Lynn Johnson /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/legacy-10-quiz.jpg Geneticist Sean Carroll's work focuses on finding the genes critical to generating specific elements of anatomy. Photograph by Lynn Johnson /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/darwin-microscope-470.jpg Close view of Darwin's brass microscope on a table in his study. Photograph by James L. Stanfield /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/legacy-06-quiz.jpg Filling a blank on the evolutionary map, paleontologist Neil Shubin sketches the skull of 375-million-year-old Tiktaalik roseae. Photograph by Lynn Johnson /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/legacy-02-quiz.jpg Once the guppies are released in Trinidad, biologist David Reznick controls their exposure to predators, then tracks changes in populations. Photograph by Lynn Johnson /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/galapagos-finch-470.jpg Tool-using woodpecker finch probes a branch with a cactus spine. Photograph by James L. Stanfield /2009/02/darwin-legacy/img/legacy-07-quiz.jpg In the lab, paleontologist Neil Shubin, A National Geographic grantee, studies how body plans evolve. Photograph by Lynn Johnson 7 Excellent work. You are an expert on Charles Darwin. With a little work, you will be a pro on Charles Darwin. You are off to a good start. You may want to try again. 0 Abraham Lincoln William McKinley Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan 1 1 Beagle to serve as what? ]]> Deckhand Surveyor Dining companion Priest 3 Beagle as a dining companion for the captain. As the voyage went on, Darwin assumed the role of a naturalist.]]> 2 Beagle expedition? ]]> To break record time for circumnavigating the globe To map the harbors and coastlines of South America To establish a colony on the Galapágos Islands To find gold in South America 2 Beagle's primary purpose was to map the harbors and coastlines of South America. Following this work the ship took a year to circumnavigate the globe.]]> 3 Beagle? ]]> 1,112 3,475 5,436 10,001 3 4 Ground sloth Ostrich Armadillo-like animal An extinct form of horse 2 5 Beagle?]]> Richard Owen Francis Crick Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace 1 6 Clergyman Farmer Teacher Naturalist 1 Beagle. Years after his return, Darwin declared himself an agnostic.]]> 7 The Origin of Species? ]]> His wife persuaded him to. He had a near-death experience. Another person was going to publish the same theory. His colleagues threatened to destroy the fossils he collected. 3 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Although Darwin had developed his theory of natural selection a year and a half after the Beagle expedition, he did not feel comfortable with all he had written on it. He rushed the publication to print in 1859, only after finding out that Alfred Russel Wallace was going to publish the same idea. ]]> 8 The Origin of Species?]]> Page 1 Page 67 Page 195 Page 400 4 The Origin of Species Darwin begins with the mention of the Beagle. He does not mention the Galápagos finches until almost the end of the book, on page 400.]]> 9 Sloths and ostriches Armadillos and horses Clams and water beetles Mice and ducks 3