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Darwin found differences among the species on different islands and that not all islands have the same species.

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The voyage laid the groundwork for his theory of evolution through natural selection. The three patterns that lead Darwin to the discovering of evolution
1. The replacement of extinct species by newer ones,
2. the geographic replacement of one species by another over large portions of the South American continent and
3. the micro-version of the same geographic replacement patterns on different islands in a chain.

Darwin had the idea of something called natural selection which he then began to connect with his knowledge of variation and inheritance.

With reading the book of economist Thomas Malthus, that species always produce the best offspring to survive the longest, which created the evolutionary theory. By 1838 he completed his theory.

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Charles Darwin read his books :3
They were a very big inspiration and source of information for him. Even though he rejected a lot of Humboldt`s scientific conclusions.
The other way around, Humboldt was very interested in the voyage.

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Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in the tiny merchant town of Shrewsbury, England.

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Charles Darwin was a child of wealth and privilege who loved to explore nature. Darwin was the second youngest of six kids. He came from a long line of scientists: His father, Dr. R.W. Darwin, was a medical doctor, and his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, was a renowned botanist. Darwin’s mother, Susanna, died when he was only eight years old.

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At age 16 Darwin signed up at the Edinburgh University along with his brother Erasmus. Two years later, he became a student at Christ's College in Cambridge. He met his future mentor J.S Henslow on this University. His father hoped he would follow in his footsteps and become a medical doctor, but Darwin gets dizzy.

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The journey of the Beagle´s Voyage with Charles Darwin

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The Galapagos had a profound affect on Charles Darwin, where he was able to witness first hand the effects of evolution in isolation. Made up of lots of small islands, Darwin landed at only four of the islands on the archipelago: San Cristobal, Floreana, Santiago, and Isabela. It was the numerous differences between the animals, flora and fauna on each island that caused such a sensation to Darwin and helped him prove his theory. He wrote at the time ‘…the circumstance that several of the islands possess their own species of tortoise, mocking-thrush, finches, and numerous plants, these species having the same general habits, occupying analogous situations, and obviously filling the same place in the natural economy of this archipelago, that strikes me with wonder.`

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-on the origin of species (1859)

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Charles Darwin died at his family home the Down House in London. He passed away on April 19, 1882. He was buried at Westminster Abbey. You can still visit his memorial.