As well as being of obvious interest to biologists news that the entire works of Charles Darwin have been digitalised should also appeal to geographers. Darwin, who revolutionised our understanding of evolution, contributed much to the development of earth sciences through his painstaking and methodical observations of plants, animals, fossils and rock formations during his travels as a nauralist on the Beagle's voyage around the world on the 1830s. Darwin set out his views on evolution in his "Origin of Species" , following it with "The Descent of Man" which contoversially asserted that man had effectively evolved from the apes, an idea that flew in the face of conventional religious belief. Indeed, the debate between evolution and creation or intelligent design still rages today, over 100 years after Darwin's death.
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