This week we learn about 22 year old Charles Darwin's first trip out to sea on the HMS Beagle and his unlikely friendship with captain Robert FitzRoy sparked his theory of evolution. A listener email tells us the lengths one Serbian chimp went to find a girlfriend.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk

Listener Tabs:

Sami the Chimp

https://www.beozoovrt.rs/heroji-vrta/sami/?lang=sr

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