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When a governing body of the International Union of Geological Sciences voted down a proposal to name a new epoch in Earth’s history, it rejected conclusive evidence that for the first time, a single species — humans — has fundamentally altered the planet.
Charles Darwin was 22 years old when he first peeled a banana.
Most travelers following in Darwin’s footsteps go to the Galápagos. But it was here, on a rocky island off the coast of West Africa, that the young naturalist was said to have found his calling.
On board the Aqua Mare, a 50-meter luxury yacht in the Galapagos, the fantastic landscapes and unique fauna are a springboard to the contemplation of the inspiring variety of life on earth.
Systemic racism and sexism have permeated civilization since the rise of agriculture, when people started living in one place for a long time. Early Western scientists, such as Aristotle in ancient Greece, were indoctrinated with the ethnocentric and misogynistic narratives that permeated their society. More than 2,000 years after Aristotle’s writings, English naturalist Charles Darwin also extrapolated the sexist and racist narratives he heard and read in his youth to the natural world.