Each time your liver filters alcohol, some of the liver cells die. The liver can develop new cells, but prolonged alcohol misuse (drinking too much) over many years can reduce your liverâs ability to regenerate.
HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan, Illustration from Darwinâs The Voyage of the Beagle. #4 Charles Darwin independently conceived the theory of natural selection in 1838. Exposed to life all over the globe during the voyage, Darwin noticed similarities among species with variations based on specific locations.
When the Beagle reached the Galapagos islands in September 1835, Darwin first noted the extraordinary marine iguanas in his Galapagos notebook with the scientific name Amblyrhyncus, a name he found in Byron's Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde (1826).