It was on Darwin's voyage into the Pacific, to the Galapagos islands that he came up with his own idea of evolution...........but as u can see from the Arabic explorer and scholar from Mansa Musa's time....................others had thought of it a long time before...........Darwin lived in the 1800s...........Mansa Musa and Ibn, forgot is last name, in the 1300s.............




he observations made in the first studies of marine biology fuelled the age of discovery and exploration that followed. During this time, a vast amount of knowledge was gained about the life that exists in the oceans of the world. Many voyages contributed significantly to this pool of knowledge. Among the most significant were the voyages of the HMS Beagle where Charles Darwin came up with his theories of evolution and on the formation of coral reefs.^[10] Another important expedition was undertaken by HMSChallenger, where findings were made of unexpectedly high species diversity among fauna stimulating much theorizing by population ecologists on how such varieties of life could be maintained in what was thought to be such a hostile environment.^[11] This era was important for the history of marine biology but naturalists were still limited in their studies because they lacked technology that would allow them to adequately examine species that lived in deep parts of the oceans.