Perhaps no place on earth is more closely linked to the theory of evolution than the Galapagos Islands. It was here, off the coast of South America, that Charles Darwin found evidence that new species can evolve through natural selection.

But these islands have undergone major social changes in the last twenty years, and a growing number of people who now call the Galapagos home do not believe in evolution.

“We base ourselves on the Bible,” says Esther Tacuri, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary. In front of the Adventist church on the Galapagos island of Santa Cruz, along bustling Charles Darwin Avenue, a large wooden sign reads: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

“We don’t believe at all that man came to be by sheer chance, or that man evolved from monkeys,” says Tacuri. “We really believe that God created man in the image and likeness of God.”

Another Adventist missionary, Lucrecia Cobos, says the vast majority of people who live here share this view.

“It is said that this is the center of evolution, but in my experience visiting with people in their homes, I never hear them talk about it,” she says. “On the contrary, the people here are much more accepting of the word of God.”

This point of view represents a big change for the Galapagos.

Jack Nelson moved to Santa Cruz Island from the United States in 1967, when only a few hundred people lived here. He says back then many of the residents came from North America and Europe, and many had some involvement with biological research.

“The local people were much more in contact with visiting scientists,” he says. “The people who live here now overwhelmingly have come from a very different kind of history.”

The Galapagos Islands belong to Ecuador, and roughly thirty thousand Ecuadoreans have moved here from the mainland in the past twenty years. They have come in search of jobs in fishing and tourism. Nelson says many of these newcomers haven’t had much science education.

At the Charles Darwin Research Station, where tourists and schoolchildren come to learn about the unique animals found on the islands, Park Service guides are hesitant to talk about evolution.

Víctor Carrión, a senior official with the Galapagos National Park, says that to stay on good terms with the community, the Park Service does not overtly promote Darwin’s theory. Instead, it focuses its message on conservation efforts, which “one hundred percent of the public supports,” he says.

But even if people say they support environmental protection, the growing population here has caused serious environmental damage.

Fishermen illegally harvest sea cucumbers and shark fins to sell to China. Locals import invasive plant species for their gardens, and those plants then spread into the wild where they threaten native varieties.

Jack Nelson – the American who moved here in 1967 – believes these environmental problems can be traced, in part, to the local population’s waning appreciation for the science of evolution.

“This is a national treasure,” he says, “and that it’s being managed rather carelessly in a lot of ways is not helped along by the fact that you have a really large population that doesn’t get it.”

But another longtime resident of the Galapagos sees it differently.

Marco Antonio Aguirre moved here with his family forty years ago to serve as a Jehovah’s Witnesses missionary. He now owns a bed and breakfast on Charles Darwin Avenue called La Peregrina (The Pilgrim).

Aguirre has also seen environmental destruction in recent years, but he argues that a belief in God’s creation may inspire people to help with conservation efforts.

“In my case, for example, it causes me to show much more respect for what we have,” he says. “And so I think that believing in a creator would be positive in that regard.”

While Aguirre does not believe in the theory of evolution, he does respect the scientist behind it. He says Darwin was a brave and insightful man who struggled to reconcile his ideas about life on earth with the Bible’s creation story.

Even those who disagree with Darwin are often grateful for what he did for the Galapagos, bringing world attention, tourists, and pride to the islands.

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Marco Werman: This next story is of interest to anyone who has ever sipped a lager beer.  A lager is a clear, cold-fermented kind of beer.  You have to use a specific kind of yeast to make the stuff.  Lagers were first brewed in Bavaria in southern Germany back in the 15th century.  Scientists have long known that the yeast involved was a hybrid, half European and half well, that was a mystery until now. Turns out the mystery yeast originated in Patagonia on the tip of South America.  Chris Todd Hittinger is a genetic scientist and co-author of a study on lager yeast.  It was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. Hittinger says he and his team made the discovery while investigating different species of yeast, or Saccharomyces, around the globe.

Chris Todd Hittinger: Saccaromyces is the Latin name for the close grouping of yeasts that include the ones that make ale, and bread and wine; and those are all made by cerevisiae, Saccaromyces cerevisiae.  And Saccaromyces are often found in association with oak trees and also with fruits.  And it turns out that all southern beech trees, they form galls in response to infection by another fungus.

Werman: And these galls they kind of look like goiters on a tree.

Hittinger: That’s right and we have them in the northern hemisphere also in a mute response.

Werman: So the lager yeast was in these galls.  How did it get to the caves of Bavaria?

Hittinger: Well, so the lager yeast itself is not in the galls, but the missing species is in these galls.  This is where the genetic research can’t be particularly informative, but we can speculate a little bit.  We know that yeast are found in the digestive tract of fruit flies and other insects, and so they are prime carriers.  With transatlantic trade going back and forth there would’ve been fruit, and juices and fermented beverages going back and forth, and fruit flies tagging along on the ships too. And either indirectly on the fruit or on the fruit flies, or even on the wood itself, seems like probably carriers from the forests of Patagonia eventually into port cities in Europe, and eventually on to Bavaria to form a hybrid that would have had a colder temperature preference than the traditional ale strains.  And they would’ve outcompeted the ale strains.  They may also have part of interesting flavors that brewers would have selected for over the centuries.

Werman: Of all the bars in the world why did a genetics professor like yourself snoop around beer yeast?

Hittinger: Well, we’re mostly interested in yeast diversity for biomedical and bio-energy applications.  And in particular, most of the genome technologies have actually been worked out in half a dozen fairly simple organisms, and Saccaromyces is really one of these champion research organisms.  And so a lot of the technologies that people are using in doctors’ offices and will soon be using in doctors’ offices are currently being used and tested out in yeast.

Werman: Saccaromyces cerevisiae not just for beer anymore I guess.

Hittinger: No, it’s really one of the champion organisms of biomedical research.

Werman: And just to end on a little linguistic note, Saccaromyces cerevisiae, cerevisiae sounds a lot like the Spanish word for beer, cerveza, is there a connection?

Hittinger: There is indeed, that’s the origin of the Latin name for the species.

Werman: Been a long and beautiful relationship.

Hittinger: It has.

Werman: Chris Todd Hittinger with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, thank you s o much.

Hittinger: Thank you.

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Now, it’s back to a booming economy. In fact, this is among the nations that some are calling the “Latin Tigers.” So, can you name South America’s second largest nation?

The answer is Argentina: it’s economy has enjoyed a growth-spurt recently — as have the economies of Brazil, Chile and Peru. But, as Richard Reynolds reports from Buenos Aires — it may be a bit soon to compare them to Taiwan or China.

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• Obama in Chile hails Latin America progress
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Guide boat on the Tambopata River (Photo: David Baron)

Today, a big commodity produced in this region is gold, although gold mining has been highly destructive to the forest here. We want you to name the country this place called ‘Hell’ is in.

A few hints: it’s South America’s third largest country and it ranks fourth in the world in the number species of frogs and other amphibians.

Enrique Ortiz is president of the Peruvian Asociacion para la Conservacion de la Cuenca Amazonica

“This is one of the richest spots in the planet of species of plants and animals. Just to give you an example, in this forest we have something on the order of 650 species of birds. You put it in context, in all of North America, there is about 700. So here in 10 acres you have almost what you have in millions and millions of acres in North America.”

“We’re hearing in the background a group, a family, of monkeys named Dusky Titi monkeys. It’s sort of like a five or six pound monkey who lives in families, and what you have is the males of two groups are at the edge of their territory and they are being very loud to make sure that the other one knows that this is their place.”

“It is right now 9:30 p.m., and actually, night life is way more active than daylight. And this is the time when you actually can realize how rich these places are.”

“We are very close to a small pond, and this time of year we are close to the start of the rainy season, and frogs are getting ready. This is sex time. So what you have here is a number of frogs that are starting to call attention of the females and say, ‘I’m here, I’m the best.’”

“And we can hear in the background a frog. My guess is that this is a poison arrow frog. It’s a solitary guy. Very unique call.”

“And it is an irony to be in a place that is called Hell, when what you find here is a paradise. It’s a place that is teeming with life.”

“My name is Enrique Ortiz. We are in Southeastern Peru, in Infierno native community, and Peru is the answer to today’s GeoQuiz.”

Our visit to Infierno was produced by The World’s Science Editor David Baron. He traveled to Peru with help from the International Reporting Project.

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But among the indigenous tribes that do live there are the Ayoreo. They live deep in the jungle and have little contact with outsiders but ranchers and loggers are steadily closing in on the Ayoreo:

“They’re constantly having to flee really and leave their villages and gardens where they grow crops and all their possessions and run deeper and farther into the forest.”

Now, some say even a planned visit by a team of wildlife scientists might disturb the Ayoreo way of life. Does science put them at risk? And what’s the name of their homeland?

The answer is Chaco or Gran Chaco. A planned visit by a team of scientists to study biodiversity there has raised concerns that the expedition could threaten the Ayoreo people’s way of life. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from Jonathan Mazower, of the London-based human rights group Survival.
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The Return by Roberto Bolaño. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. New Directions, 224 pages, $23.95

Reviewed by Tommy Wallach

Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 was one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the past few years, yet I’ve met few people who could honestly admit to enjoying it. This is no doubt partially due to the book’s length, which is artistically unjustifiable except in the way it creates a kind of “literature of cruelty,” punishing the reader page by page.

It’s not that I mind long books; I recently finished Javier Marías’ stunning Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, a single story split up into three volumes whose combined page count exceeds that of Bolaño’s epic. The problem was more the unremitting squalid repetitiveness of it all. After the hundredth or so description of a prostitute’s brutalized corpse (the book concerns itself with a murder spree on the Mexican border), the book began teetering on the edge of self-parody.

This was always Bolaño’s greatest weakness (if the past tense can be justified; the late Chilean has managed to publish half a dozen books in the past three years, a fecundity matched only by the pulpiest of genre writers): a predilection for litany. Much of 2666 bored me, and I barely managed to get through his novel Nazi Literature in the Americas, a fictionalized encyclopaedia of Nazi novelists.

Yet it is this very tendency that makes Bolaño’s short stories so powerful. Without the dangerous freeedom granted by 1000 blank pages, he manages to create dense catalogs of misery and revelation, and packs more punch into fifteen pages than he managed in all of the second volume of 2666. To complete the metaphor, his recently published collection, The Return, is nothing short of a knockout.

What impressed me most about the thirteen stories in The Return was the coherence of Bolaño’s vision. Though the stories take place in different countries (The United States, Chile, Mexico, Russia) and different time periods, though some are straight fiction, some are vaguely autobiographical, and some even drift towards magical realism (such as the compelling, Borgesian yarn “Buba,” in which three players on a soccer team perform an African blood ritual that seems to bring them success on the pitch), each new tale feels like a chapter in a continuous narrative.

The aimless lovers and murderous lowlifes of 2666 and The Savage Detectives are back, only compressed and concentrated by the word limit. Four stories revolve around murder, and the title story concerns a man who dies and then watches, as a ghost, while a famous fashion designer molests his corpse.

The late Roberto Bolaño: Less is More

Two of the best stories take place in the world of pornography. In one of these, “Joanna Silvestri,” a famous pornographic actress visits Los Angeles and rekindles a romance with one of her old co-stars, who is dying. The scene where she finally leaves him is devastatingly sad: “I turned and Jack was there, standing by the gate, watching me, and then I knew that everything was all right and I could go. That everything was all wrong, and I could go. That everything was sorry, and I could go.”

Bolaño’s trademark nods towards metafiction are also alive and well, both in the character of his alter-ego Arturo Belano, and in such stories as “Another Russian Tale,” in which a German SS officer’s accidental mishearing of the Spanish epithet “coño” as the German word “kunst,” meaning art, ends up saving a man’s life.

Perhaps the most powerful stories are the ones that concern the ongoing mythology of Bolaño himself. In “Detectives,” two men discuss Arturo Belano, the young author and political agitator they found in the Chilean prison where they both worked during the Pinochet coup. Recognizing him as an old friend from high school, the men decide to set him free. This is an oft-repeated true tale from Bolaño’s life (and one he told before, from his own perspective, in the short story “Dance Card”), but here it is imbued with metaphorical force. When the detectives take Belano to be cleaned up, he fails to recognize himself in a mirror, even though the fact that others have recognized him was the key to his salvation. The mirror may be something of a cliché, but Bolaño is able to make it feel reflective.

In another story, “Photos,” we watch Belano look through the author photos in an omnibus of French poetry circa 1973, falling in love with the various poets, mourning their passing and, through them, the passage of time:

‘…then Belano thinks about his own youth, when he used to churn it out like Tron [one of the poets], and was perhaps even better looking than Tron, he thinks, squinting at the photo, but to publish a poem, in Mexico, all those years ago when he lived in Mexico City, he’d had to sweat blood, because Mexico is Mexico, he reflects, and France is France, and then he shuts his eyes and sees a torrent of ghostly, emblematic Mexicans flowing like a grey breath of air along a dry river bed…’

Having read two of the stories in this collection in The New Yorker earlier this year, I can attest to the value of a second look. Bolaño, presented through the medium of veteran translator Chris Andrews, is revealed clearly as both a master storyteller and a subtle stylist. I feel newly confident in recommending the great Chilean to friends, though I plan to put new emphasis on his short work. These stories do more than serve as an entrée to his novels. They manage to surpass them.

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Today’s Geo Quiz takes us to Colombia in South America. That nation is divided into 32 departments.

We’re looking for the name of just one. It’s the ONLY one that has coastlines on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides. Most of this department faces the Pacific, though.

And it’s mostly mountains and dense rainforest. Some 400 inches of rain fall there every year.

So much rain — in fact — that this is considered one of the wettest regions on Earth. It’s not all clouds and water though. We’ll hear some very danceable music from this part of Colombia… in our Global Hit segment today….

Find out the answer here in the Global Hit

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The topic was Machu Picchu — the ancient Incan city in Peru. The site was closed to tourists after floods in January destroyed roads and railways that serve the site.

Today, Machu Picchu re-opened. And our challenge to you was to name the man credited with discovering the archaeological site. The answer is Hiram Bingham.

Bingham was a Yale historian who later served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. He found Machu Picchu in 1911. Now, there’s some controversy around Bingham’s claim that he was the first outsider to visit the site. But there’s no doubt that Bingham was the person who brought Machu Picchu to world attention.

He wrote about his expeditions in National Geographic magazine and a best-selling book. There’s now a luxury train named after him. It runs from the Peruvian city of Cusco to the base of Machu Picchu, which — in the Quechua language — means “Old Peak.”

The trains are not currently operating their normal service… because of the recent flooding. But before the floods, The World’s David Baron had a chance to ride the Hiram Bingham… And he brings us this audio postcard:

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Machu Picchu is one of, if not the most popular tourist destination in all of South America. The pre-Columbian Inca site is located 8,000 feet above sea level, on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba River. This photo was taken by Martin St-Amant. Recent heavy rains have brought flooding the region, stranding tourists, and threatening the lives and livelihoods of locals who depend on those tourists, who come by way of a trek on the Inca Trail, or via train. In this episode of Talking Travel, Lonely Planet’s Robert Reid and Tom Hall assess the short-term and long-term damage to Peru’s tourism industry, and also point out that Peru is not a one trick pony: there are many other reasons to make the journey besides Machu Picchu. They also tell host Clark Boyd about other South American destinations where ancient ruins take center stage. Remember, you can subscribe to this audio podcast via RSS or iTunes.

Below you can find some relevant links from the podcast:

• Lonely Planet: Peru
• Lonely Planet: Machu Picchu
• Lonely Planet: Kuélap — Machu Picchu alternate
• Stuart Starr’s En Peru Blog in Colombia
• Ciudad Perdida in Colombia
• National Parks in northern Chile in Colombia

Here is a video we found that shows just how bad some of the flooding in Peru has been:

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It’s a funnel-shaped estuary is formed by the confluence of two rivers: the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers. At its widest point — where it meets the Atlantic Ocean — the Rio de la Plata is more than 130 miles across.

Jacques Descloitres, MODISRapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

We’re looking for a big city on the river’s south-western shore. It’s one of South America’s major cities, eclipsed in size only by São Paulo.

Residents of this city can go out and dine on asado or stay home and read stories by native son Jorge Luis Borges. Two residents plan to tie the knot there tomorrow — and make history.

We’ll tell you why — when we return with this city’s name…

If all goes as planned, they’ll be the first gay couple to legally wed in Argentina. Julia Kumari Drapkin recently sat down with them at a Buenos Aires hotel.

Meet Alex Freyer and Jose di Bello. Jose is an executive with the Argentine Red Cross. Alex is head of the Buenos Aires AIDS foundation. Alex says a passion for activism and human rights brought them together.

Alex: “It’s not easy. If you are gay to find other gay with the same pride. And with the same idea to change the world to be better.“

That’s the reason I proposed this question: Do you want to marry me – but do you know, it’s not a romantic proposal only. It’s a political proposal.

Gay couples in Buenos Aires can have civil unions, but they can’t get married. So Alex wasn’t just asking Jose to commit to him. He was asking him to commit to a public battle.

Jose: “And I think why not? I know I want to stay Alex all my life. And I said- yes. I want.“
Getting politicians in Argentina to say yes to changing the law was another matter. Single sex marriage isn’t legal in Argentina, where the Catholic Church remains influential.

Alex: “They need to change only two words: man and woman. And replace the words by partners. It’s simple but at the same time there’s too much pressure from the church.”

But instead of waiting for lawmakers to take action, Alex and Jose decided to take a different tack. Alex says they went to a civil clerk in Buenos Aires ….

Alex: “We went to the register civil to say we want a date, for be married, and they say – no.”

The law doesn’t permit to you to obtain this right. So the couple sued the city of Buenos Aires for denying them their constitutional rights. Earlier this month, the judge ruled in their favor.

Alex: “The justice said yes. And the government say its okay. I say wow so much responsibility.”

It’s a big responsibility because Alex and Jose won’t be just the first gay couple to marry in Argentina. They’ll be the first to legally wed in Latin America.

Jose: “We are the first!”

And they plan to wed tomorrow, December 1st.

Alex: “December 1st is the global day of AIDS. It’s very important to us. Both of us are living with HIV. We are positive.”

Even though Alex and Jose plan to get married tomorrow, the judge’s decision doesn’t set a precedent for other single sex couples to wed in Argentina. But Alex says it’s still a victory.

Alex: “We win this round. We win. We can- we obtain. Now the rainbow is here. You know when we say, “somewhere over the rainbow. It’s here! It’s in Buenos Aires.”

The Buenos Aires mayor decided not to appeal, so the judge’s decision is final. The mayor told reporters… “The world is heading in this direction.”

For the world, I’m Julia Kumari Drapkin in Buenos Aires.

Here are a few hints. It’s a mountainous area, in a chain of peaks that stretches more than 4, 000 miles. These mountains rise above a coastal desert on one side. On the other side of the mountains is the world’s largest tropical forest.

For the Geo Quiz, we want you to identify the mountain chain and the continent where the potato was first farmed thousands of years ago.

The answer is South America, in the Andes Mountains, in an area now occupied by the nations of Peru and Bolivia. That region remains home to the greatest diversity of potatoes on earth.

And it’s a place where scientists are trying to preserve those potatoes, and to help the people who depend on them.

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Pamela Anderson is the director general of the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru. In this audio slideshow she provides a brief and colorful history of the potato in South America.

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MARCO WERMAN:  For today’s Geo Quiz we wanted to know where in the world potatoes originated.  We asked for the continent and more specifically, the mountain range.  The answer is South America, the continent and the mountain range, the Andes Mountains in an area now occupied by Peru and Bolivia.  The region remains home to the greatest diversity of potatoes on earth and it’s a place where scientists are trying to preserve that diversity.  Here’s one of them.

PAMELA ANDERSON:  My name is Pamela Anderson.  I’m the Director General of the International Potato Center which is headquartered here in Lima, Peru.  In North America and Europe, most of us, when we think of potatoes, think of what we call the white improved potato.  But we estimate that there are five thousand varieties of native potatoes currently grown in farmers’ fields in the Andean chain.  And many of these are so diverse that you wouldn’t recognize them as potatoes if I showed them to you.  They come in all kinds of colors. Yellow, pink, purple, blue, orange, I mean rainbow colors.  Beautiful patterns.  You cut one of them open and it looks like a butterfly on the inside.  They come in all kinds of shapes. They look like little pineapples, eagles’ claws, snakes.  All of these potatoes have names that are [SOUNDS LIKE] Ketchua.  This potato is actually the shape of a puma’s hand and that’s what the Ketchua says, [SOUNDS LIKE] Yama Puka Makin, the hand that belongs to the puma.  So our primary mission here in the Andes is to protect this biodiversity but also to work with the populations in the highlands who continue to grow and utilize these and make sure that as they protect the conservation in the field, they also benefit from these potatoes.  So as an example, last year, Pepsi Co/Frito-Lay who does Lay’s potato chips, came up with a brand new product which was their Lay’s Andeans potatoes.  Those are potato chips made out of the native potatoes from the highlands of Peru. The sales have really shot up exponentially.  They are in all of the major supermarket chains in Lima and moving out into other parts of the country.  This is what it looks like.  You can just see how beautiful the packaging is and that, would you like to taste?  Oh, look at that.  They’re purple, they’re pink, they’re yellow.  They’re lovely.  These are the only potato chips I eat anymore, seriously.  They’re good.

WERMAN:  You can see a slideshow of the unusual potato varieties Pamela Anderson mentioned, including that uncanny puma hand.  The slideshow is at TheWorld.org.  Our interview was produced by The World’s David Barren, with assistance from The International Reporting Project.

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Sofia Rei Koutsovitis

Members of her band also hail from South America originally. But they live and work now in New York City.

Sofia Rei Koutsovitis came to our studio with musicians Jorge Roeder and Jorge Perez Albela.

Find out more on Sofia’s new CD and tour dates here.

“Sube Azul”
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Sosa died yesterday. She was 74 years old. She left a legacy of activism and music. Mercedes Sosa’s music and politics influenced generations of Latin American artists.

Among them is composer Osvaldo Golijov.

And we leave you with a track from Mercedes Sosa’s new album “Cantora.”

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Cumbia — the traditional dance rhythm born north of Argentina in Colombia — is the starting point for the Zizek DJs. But only a starting point. Grant Dull — an American expat — is one of the masterminds behind Zizek. His main partners are French deejay, Douster and Argentine deejay Fauna.

Since we first met Dull and the Zizek crew back in April, they’ve been juggling a touring schedule, the club night in Buenos Aires, and a new release of dance tracks, “Zizek Sounds Volume 2.” I met up recently with Dull, and asked him to spin a few of the tunes from the new collection for us.

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