But the matter of geographical speciation only gained clarity when he met with Gould and the differences between Darwin and Gould highlight that Darwin was already receptive soil to the notion that life had evolved. This suggests that the importance of the Galapagos Islands had more to do with the processes of speciation than as a provocation of his thinking about evolution in the first place. It further suggests that the fact that Darwin has been a closed story has masked how much thought Darwin had given to these issues.
