1831年，22岁的英国青年查尔斯·达尔文登上小猎犬号军舰，开始了一场历时近五年的环球航行，1835年到达加拉帕戈斯群岛。有趣的是，他当时并没有特别留意那些雀鸟，反而更注意不同岛屿上的嘲鸫长得不一样。

In 1831, the twenty two year old Englishman Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle for a voyage around the world that lasted almost five years, reaching the Galapagos Islands in 1835. Interestingly, at the time he did not pay much attention to the finches; he was more interested in how the mockingbirds differed from island to island.

1837年回到英国后，鸟类学家约翰·古尔德研究了达尔文带回的鸟类标本，发现那些原以为各不相同的鸟，其实是一群全新的雀类，彼此亲缘很近。这个发现启发了达尔文，经过二十多年的思考，他在1859年出版了《物种起源》。今天这些鸟被称为「达尔文雀」。

After Darwin returned to England, the ornithologist John Gould studied his bird specimens in 1837 and found that birds Darwin had thought were all different were in fact a new group of closely related finches. This discovery inspired Darwin, and after more than twenty years of thought he published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Today these birds are known as Darwins finches.

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