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Incubators. >> really? you're incubating galapagos hair tortoises with a hair dryer. [ speaking spanish ] that's low-tech love. got to wonder how darwin would work humans with hair dryers into the whole survival of the fittest idea. look at that. adorable. but if so many things go just right, the life in these eggs will roam wild on these islands for a couple hundred years each. ♪ galapagos is so beautiful >> it was decades after their voyage before darwin published his radical ideas. and fitzroy? he eventually took his own life. adios mabel. so much has changed since that

But depression and suicide also ran in fitzroy's family, so he suggested he take a traveling companion. and he settled on a 22-year-old difficu divinity school graduate. they never hit it off. so his companion would go away every chance he could. and on these very islands, he found the most amazing assortment of life, creatures that were gruesome and cuddly and everything in between. and come back to the ship every night filled with the kind of questions and ideas that could change the world. you see, fitzroy's companion was named charles darwin. little did he know, the captain had picked the ...

Life in six days. but depression and suicide also ran in fitzroy's family, so they insisted he take along a traveling companion, someone to keep him sane for years and at sea. he settled on a 22-year-old difenty school graduate. they would spend most of their early 20s in a tiny little cabin but never really hit it off. so his companion would get away as often as he could, go ashore every chance he could. and on these very islands, he found the most amazing assortment of life. creatures that were gruesome and cuddly and everything in between and come back to the ship every night filled with th...

♪ so beautiful >> and joining us on this little so journ is a troubadour slash guide named matias espinosa. this is your office, man. >> fresh air, nice people. >> this is your office. i'm so jealous of you. ♪ mabel mabel mabel mabel ♪ mabel >> the waves roll, the sky changes color and the mind drifts to another voyage in this same spot, a voyage led by a captain named fitzroy who, at a tender age, was given a ship and a mission to explore the coastline of south america. great gig for any sailor, but fitzroy was also a devout christian and saw this as a great opportunity to prove the boo...

fulfill. we'l do our best to try and be helpful to you. i look forward to seeing you this afternoon. thanks for coming to washington. [applause] >> thank you so much. ... well, i was trained as an anthropologist, as a matter of fact, you might say, i am the very model of a modern anthropologist. ♪ i am the very model of a modern anthropologist, a link quits, andest nighties. ♪ ♪ indeed i know what to do to exercise an evil eye ♪ or shout a rating cry ♪ ♪ when i can slash a jungle to the ground ♪ ♪ you'll say a better anthropologist has never been found ♪ ♪ ♪ i c...