Who was Wilson? Why did he want to obtain the emperor penguin eggs
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Henry Bowers, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Bill Wilson took 35 days to collect three emperor penguin eggs in July 1911. In the middle of the Antarctic winter, they had to survive intense blizzards and temperatures that plunged to –60C. It was pitch black and the three had to navigate by candlelight and the stars. They took turns falling into crevasses. Cherry's teeth chattered so violently that they shattered, while Wilson was blinded in one eye by a blob of boiling blubber from a camp stove.
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Edward Wilson, the expedition’s chief scientist, particularly wanted to test the theory that studying emperor penguin embryos would show an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles.
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