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Capt. Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), an aristocrat and Beagle commander, 1828-1836. He had sailed on the first Beagle voyage and became acting commander upon the suicide of the captain, and then was appointed to command the second voyage. He was a strict bible literalist and during the voyage often disputed Darwin's interpretations of natural phenomena. He claimed, for example, that the reason for the extinction of very large animals was because they couldn't fit through the doors of Noah's ark. He has later governor of New Zealand and became a bitter opponent of Darwinism. He eventually committed suicide.
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