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IN THE POPULAR imagination, the Galápagos Islands represent the ultimate natural paradise—an earthy mecca where the wildlife that inspired Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution still waddles and crawls freely about. Lately, however, the place has gotten quite glamorous. A couple of nice resorts have opened and the small expedition ships that cruise the area are becoming more yacht-like. At the silent-auction gala at a fancy Manhattan private school last spring, such a voyage was the “trip of a lifetime” hot ticket. On Showtime’s series “Billions,” hedge-funder Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) whimsically suggested to…