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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 the HMS Beagle, which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Darwin was given particular recognition in 2000 when his image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens.
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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 Emma Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Darwin was her first cousin; their shared grandparents were Josiah Wedgwood and his wife Sarah; and as the Wedgwood and Darwin families were closely allied, she had been acquainted with him since childhood.
Emma Darwin is especially remembered for her patience and fortitude in dealing with her husband's long-term illness (see:Charles Darwin's illness,) which became apparent shortly after their marriage.
A source of difficulty in the Darwins' marriage was conflict between Charles' scientific findings (most particularly, the origin of humanity in the undirected process of evolution) and Emma's own devout Christian beliefs.
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 Charles Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darwin took part in these investigations, and in March 1827 made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that the fl spores often found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech.
Darwin was surveying strata in Wales 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 found different mockingbirds on the nearby Galápagos Islands, and on returning to Britain he was shown that Galápagos tortoises and finches were also in distinct species based on the individual islands they inhabited.
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 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, the fifth of six children of Robert and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood.
Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April 1882 was given a state funeral, and interred in Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton.
Darwin is included in the top 10 of the 100 GreatestBritons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles Darwin
William Darwin Fox The Reverend William Darwin Fox (1805-1880) was an English clergyman, naturalist and a 2nd cousin of Charles Robert Darwin.
Leonard Darwin Leonard as a boy with his mother, Emma Darwin Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 —; 26 March 1943), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.
The Development of Darwins theory began with a search for explanations of contradictions in current faith based ideas, and led him to formulate his theory of evolution which was eventually published in his book On the Origin of Species, a turning point in the history of evolutionary thought.
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After Darwin finished his studies, Henslowrecommended him for the position of naturalist and gentleman's companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of the HMS Beagle,which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of SouthAmerica.
Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition allowed him to studyboth the geological properties of continents and isles and a multitude of living organisms and fossils.
According to Mayr, Darwin's evolutionary thinking rests on a rejection of essentialism, which assumes the existence of some perfect, essential form for any particular class ofexistent, and treats differences between individuals as imperfections or deviations away from the perfect essential form.
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 Charles Darwin : QuicklyFind Info
After Darwin finished his studies, Henslow recommended him for the position of gentleman's companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
These attempts to fudge Darwin's story had already been exposed for what they were, first by his daughter Henrietta after they had been revived in 1922.
Darwin's own struggle with faith got sharper the older he became, and his posthumously-published autobiography contained quotes about Christianity that were omitted by Darwin's wife Emma and his son Francis because they were deemed dangerous for Charles Darwin's reputation.
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 ipedia.com: Darwin -- Wedgwood family Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Charles Darwin was the son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (nee Wedgwood).
Emma Darwin (nee Wedgwood) was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II.
Francis Darwin (1848–1925 was the botonist son of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin (nee Wedgwood).
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 ipedia.com: Darwin College, Cambridge Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
William Brown Graduates 570 Undergraduates None Darwin College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambr...
Darwin College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
The college hosts the annual Darwin lectures, a series of talks for a general audience around a single theme, given by eminent speakers who are leading authorities in their fields.
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 AboutDarwin.com - People of Note
The first of Darwin's children was born on December 27, 1839.
It was the death of Annie that radically altered Darwin’s belief in Christianity.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879, and taught at Cambridge University from 1884, as a Professor of Botany, until 1904.
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 Darwin-Wedgwood family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Darwin-Wedgwood family was a prominent English family, descended from Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, the most notable member of which was Charles Darwin.
William Erasmus Darwin (27 December 1839 - 1914); graduate of Christ's College Cambridge, he was a banker in Southampton.
Charles Waring Darwin (6 December, 1856 - 28 June, 1858) was the tenth child and sixth son of Charles and Emma Darwin.
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 An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, American ...
Enclosed proof of note which CD will insert in his forthcoming " `Reply' " is "a correct statement of the relations of the passage I have printed on the use and meaning of the term `Creation', as used by Naturalists in some of their discussions, to the partial quotation from it in Prof.
Darwin, Fertilisation of Orchids (1862)] on fertilisation of orchids; "I almost wish I could have been completely idle here"; heaven knows when Darwin, Variation under Domestication (1868) will be done; regards to wife [Mary Elizabeth Horner Lyell].
Leonard Darwin], and Horace [Darwin] are still ill; will go to Bournemouth soon to be near other children; the [John William] Lubbocks have home in Chiselhurst; is glad Glen Roy is settled; moraines opposite L[och] Treig are important, as is slope inland, if proved.
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 ipedia.com: Francis Galton Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Sir Francis Galton FRS was an English explorer, statistician, anthropologist, advocate of eugenics, and investigator of the human mind.
Sir Francis Galton FRS (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911) was an English explorer, statistician, anthropologist, advocate of eugenics (he coined the term), and investigator of the human mind.
He was born into the Darwin -- Wedgwood family near Sparkbrook, Birmingham and was Charles Darwin's half first cousin, his mother and Darwin's father having been children of Erasmus Darwin by separate marriages.
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 The Darwin Correspondence Online Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
2825a: Hooker, J. to Darwin, C. 8 June 1860
Glad to hear good news of Etty [Henrietta Darwin].
Copyright is held by the University of Cambridge
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