LiveScience.com - When Charles Darwin boarded the H.M.S. Beagle in 1831 as the ship's naturalist, he had only one challenge - to keep himself entertained for the next five years. His scientific assignment was to collect anything that crawled, swam or flew, and to keep track of all sorts of biological measures such as water temperature and currents. But really, boredom was the big problem.

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