Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut is the fictional story told by Leon Trout, the ghost of a man who died during the construction of the ship "Bahia de Darwin." Trout observes the passengers of this ship as they make their way on the "Nature Cruise of the Century." Excited to travel to the same Galapagos Islands that Darwin made famous, the passengers of this excursion were not prepared to be shipwrecked on the island of Santa Rosalia incidentally at the same time that an infectious disease causing humans to be infertile is spreading rapidly throughout the rest of the world.
[...] This is a very basic representation of Darwin's theory of Natural Selection and it is poetic the way Vonnegut has the human race reborn on the very islands which were so key to the theory of evolution. The concept of Natural Selection is more subtly demonstrated through the change in diet. Being stranded on an island with limited resources, one of the only places to obtain sufficient vitamins was from seaweed. Some people were able to digest it better than others making them healthier and more attractive and thus giving them the reproductive advantage. [...]
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