Chapter 4
Starting Agile In Your Organization
On December 27, 1831, the British naval vessel the HMS Beagle left port with Charles Darwin as part of her crew. The voyage was a terrific opportunity for the young biologist to travel and observe the principles of botany, geology, and zoology.
Through hands-on research, he started to formulate what would later become his theory of evolution. In his travels, he observed that many organisms thrived while others would die off through a process of natural selection.
On the distant shores of the Galapagos Archipelago, he watched colonies of land-loving iguanas dart into the water and feed on marine algae. He noted that in no other place on earth did iguanas swim in the water. These Galapagos iguanas ...
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