In The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin writes that 'My attention was first called to this fact [of adaptation] by the Vice-Governor, Mr Lawson, declaring that the tortoises differed from the different islands, and that he could with certainty tell from which island any one was brought.'

What reasons can you suggest as to why different-looking tortoises might live on different islands?

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