During the course of Darwin's journey aboard the HMS Beagle he was collecting and recording _____  and ________.

A. religious; political evidence
B. fossils; geological evidence
C. historical; biological evidence
D. geological; biological diversity evidence
E. biological; genetic evidence


Answer: D

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