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not made of chocolate, the penguin eggs were contributing to scientific debates about global
evolution. Charles Darwin's
On the Origin of Species
(1859) was read avidly by Scott's
party, and as one member, Apsley Cherry-Gerrard, noted, 'We were witnessing a marvel of
the natural world. We had within our grasp material which might prove of the utmost
importance to science; we were turning theories into facts with every observation we made.'