How was HMS Beagle’s voyage significant to science?

The soviet union beat the us to the first successful launch, with the october 4, 1957, orbiting of sputnik 1, and later beat the us to have the first human in earth orbit, yuri gagarin, on april 12, 1961. the "race" peaked with the july 20, 1969, us landing of the first humans on the moon with apollo 11

  eukaryotic cells may arise from sexual reproductions, resulting in more genetic variation  i would say that is the answer