Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants

For many people, the story of Charles Darwin goes like this: he ventured to the Galapagos Islands on the Beagle , was inspired by the biodiversity of the birds he saw there, and immediately returned home to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative is inaccurate and lacking: it leaves out a major part of Darwin's legacy. He published On the Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages.