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On which ship did Joseph Banks sail with Captain Cook?
Answer: HMS Endeavour
Why: On this voyage, Cook named Botany Bay after the many plants Banks and Daniel Solander found there.
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Who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest'?
Answer: Herbert Spencer
Why: Darwin added Spencer's phrase to the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species in 1869.
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Where was John James Audubon born?
Answer: Haiti
Why: His birthplace, Les Cayes, was then in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and he grew up in France.
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Who made two-part Latin names the rule for species?
Answer: Carl Linnaeus
Why: Our own species got its scientific name, Homo sapiens, from Linnaeus in 1758.
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Which university let Jane Goodall do a PhD without a first degree?
Answer: Cambridge
Why: She became the eighth person Cambridge allowed to study for a PhD without a first degree.
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On which island did Wallace write his 1858 essay on evolution?
Answer: Ternate
Why: Wallace worked out natural selection during a violent malaria fever on Ternate, drafting the essay to send to Darwin once his chills subsided.
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