Chapter 1
1. When Darwin was young he didn’t want to become a Doctor and follow his family footsteps. He was more interested in exploring. The main thing that captured his attention was when Charles the 7 volume books about travel.
2.He had the idea of the water rising or if the land had fallen. After that he went to Rio where he again started to explore. He noticed adaptation there.
3. The animals looked similar, which made him think they were related somehow. But it was like they grew into better species of themselves.
4. his ideas were that There was great overproduction of offspring in nature because of death, disease, and famine. After reading this darwin came up with his “species theory”, claiming that there must be stronger organisms out there.
5.he didnt want to risk his reputation, and he didn’t want it to cause any problems with emma.

Chapter 2
1. The animals and plants were unexplored. And it was very large. Covered in tropical forest, the islands appeared similar, but they all were different. There were also many volcanoes.
2. All of the families of birds that were common on Sumatra, Java, and Borneo had, Aru, New Guinea, and Australia did not. On the large western islands there were monkeys, tigers, and rhinos. But on Aru there were no primates or carnivores all the native mammals were marsupials. He discovered that one island had animals that preferred moisture and the others preferred drought.
3.He also found that in places that are tough to live in, even the weakest were filtered out, just like Darwin thought.

Chapter 3
1. He saw different species of moths and butterflies all inherited specific traits.
2. Bates argued that many species used camouflage against there predators, and to protect themselves they made themselves blend in with camo, which made them mimic another organism.
3. That short glimpse introduced Darwin to Batesian Mimicry, and Darwin liked this because it showed how even the weaker individuals had a chance to survive.