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Which carnivorous plant did Darwin praise for its speed?
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What animal did cartoonists often draw Darwin as?
Answer: Ape
Why: Most of these cartoons followed The Descent of Man in 1871, the book in which Darwin applied evolution to humans.
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Where in Australia is the capital named after Darwin?
Answer: Northern Territory
Why: The town was officially called Palmerston until 1911, when it was renamed Darwin.
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Which science filled most of Darwin's Beagle notes?
Answer: Geology
Why: About 1,383 pages of his Beagle notes covered geology, against just 368 pages on zoology.
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What does Darwin's theory of evolution explain?
Answer: How species change
Why: Darwin's guess at how life began, a warm little pond, came in a private 1871 letter to Joseph Hooker, not in his books.
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Whose essay on population helped Darwin reach natural selection?
Answer: Thomas Malthus
Why: Malthus argued that unchecked populations multiply geometrically while food supplies grow only arithmetically.
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What two words did Darwin write above his 1837 tree sketch?
Answer: I think
Why: The notebook with the sketch vanished from Cambridge University Library for over 20 years until its anonymous return in 2022.
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