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With a long grey beard and old-school brown suit, a Charles Darwin lookalike observes marine iguanas and the blue-footed booby - an iconic bird on the Galapagos Islands. Two centuries after the British biologist visited the archipelago which inspired his theory of evolution, retired US professor Kenneth Noll, 66, has tracked part of his journey all while dressed as his 19th-century hero.
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00:48 I want to try to feel the same things he does.
00:51 The same-- I mean, I am a scientist.
00:53 But I want to feel the same excitement he did
00:55 and the same outlook that he had.
00:58 And I want to try to communicate that to audiences
01:01 to make him to be a very real human being.
01:04 I visited your islands many years ago.
01:09 And it is very possible that the winter will be--
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01:18 I think he would be delighted to know someone who's doing this.
01:28 I mean, he wasn't necessarily trying
01:32 to be a science communicator.
01:33 But all his books were meant for the general public.
01:36 So that's the way science was done,
01:38 was to communicate with people.
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01:48 Perfect.
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