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 Charles Darwin
After Darwin finished his studies, Henslow recommended him for the position of naturalist and gentleman's companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of HMS Beagle, which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Though Darwin was supported by some scientists (e.g., T.H. Huxley), others hesitated to accept the theory due to the unexplained ability of individuals to pass their special abilities to their offspring.
Darwin is included in the top 10 of the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
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 Charles Darwin
Darwin's early education was conducted at Shrewsbury, first for a year at a day school, then for seven years at Shrewsbury School under Dr.
Darwin explained at the outset, what he insisted on elsewhere, that the facts of adaptation or contrivance in nature are the real difficulty to be explained by a theory of evolution, the stumbling-block of every previous suggestion.
In the fifth chapter Darwin incorporated a certain proportion of the doctrines of Buffon -- modifications due to the direct influence of environment; and of Lamarck -- the hereditary effects of use and disuse.
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Darwin was surveying strata on his own when his plans to visit Madeira were dashed by a message that his intended companion had died, but on his return home he received another letter.
Darwin preferred the respectability of his friends the Cambridge Dons, even though his ideas were pushing beyond their belief that natural history must justify religion and social order.
Darwin found an answer to the problem of how genera forked in an analogy with industrial ideas of division of labour, with specialised varieties each finding their niche so that species could diverge.
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 An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, American ...
The son of the physician Robert Darwin, Charles Darwin was blessed with a pair of illustrious grandfathers from the progressive elite of British Whiggery, the savant and proto-evolutionist, Erasmus Darwin, and the manufacturer of ceramics, Josiah Wedgwood.
Darwin's research during the 1840s and early 1850s included brushes with the evolutionist thought of the botanist J.D. Hooker, the cosmic Robert Chambers and others, and in 1842, he sketched out the rudiments of his theory, thinking enough of it to have it copied two years later.
Darwin was careful in his selection of informants; he always checked to be certain that each one was an expert in the subject about which he was inquiring.
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 Darwin — Wedgwood family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841-1851) died of tuberculosis aged ten and her death caused her father much pain.
Charles Waring Darwin (6 December 1856 - 28 June 1858) was the tenth child and sixth son of Charles and Emma Darwin.
Francis Darwin (1848–1925)was the botanist son of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin (nee Wedgwood).
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 Darwin Day Celebration - NEWlang
Charles and Emma Darwin were both fond of children and would eventually have a total of ten with the first one born towards the end of 1839 and the last one in 1856 when Emma was 48 yeas old.
William was a graduate of Christ’s College at Cambridge University, and became a banker, after Charles Darwin guaranteed the sum of 5,000 pounds enabling William to become a partner in a bank.
Darwin nominated Francis to the Linnean Society in 1875 and promoted a paper Francis sent to the Royal Society.
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 Anne Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin (2 March 1841–22 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.
In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever along with her two sisters and youngest brother, the last dying of the disease, and her health thereafter declined; some authorities believe that she suffered from tuberculosis.
Her death at age ten was a terrible blow for both Charles and Emma, and is said by Browne to have driven Darwin to atheism, though Darwin, who had studied to become a pastor as a young man, consistently described himself as an agnostic (see Charles Darwin's views on religion).
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 The Darwin Page - Darwin - Life Chronology - Dr Robert A. Hatch
Darwin's interest in 'bugs and beetles' was longstanding.
Papers by Darwin and Wallace, announcing theory of Evolution through natural selection, were read at Linnaean Society, London.
In later years Darwin worked on unsolved problems of variation and heredity (published in 1868), and later he continued work on botanical works on plant hybridization and variation.
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 Charles Darwin Biography and Works - LitCollection.com
Anne Elizabeth Darwin (2 March 1841 — 22 April 1851)
Opponents claimed that the beauty of birds demonstrated divine guidance.
These two subjects were tackled in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and followed up by The Expression of Emotions in Animals and Man. Darwin produced practical explanations for the differences between males and females, and between different races and cultures.
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