Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by establishing the fact of evolution and originating the theory that this could be explained through natural and sexual selection. He developed his interest in natural history while studying first medicine, then theology, at university. Darwin's five-year voyage on the Beagle and subsequent writings brought him eminence as a geologist and fame as a popular author. His biological observations led him to study t ...

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Charles Darwin - Published works. 1836: A LETTER, Containing Remarks on the Moral State of TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, &c. – BY CAPT. R. FITZROY AND C. DARWIN, ESQ. OF H.M.S. 'Beagle.' [1] 1839: Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle) Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle: published between 1839 and 1843 in five volumes by various authors, Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin: information on two of the volumes – 1840: Part I. Fossi ...

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Charles Darwin - Early life. Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809, at his family home, the Mount House. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side, both from the prominent English Darwin — Wedgwood family which supported the Unitarian church. His mother died when he was only eight. When he went to the nearby Shrewsbury School the ne ...

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Darwinism is a term for the underlying theory in the ideas of Charles Darwin, particularly concerning evolution and natural selection. Discussions of Darwinism usually focus on evolution by natural selection. The term is mostly used by its enemies. As biologist E.O. Wilson has noted, "Scientists don't call it 'Darwinism'." [Newsweek Nov 28, 2005] Darwinism - Darwinism and other -isms. The term "Darwinism" is most commonly used by creationists as a somewhat derogatory term for "evolutionary bio ...

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A Darwin Award is an honor given to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by "removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner." The prizes are named in honor of the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, are awarded over the World Wide Web, and are frequently distributed via email. There is no monetary or material prize associated with the Darwin Award, only infamous recognition. To take the premise of the award seriously is to suppose the stupidity of the awardees to be genetically determined, arguing that nature affects behavior mo ...

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Darwin Day is the anniversary of the birthday of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809. Darwin provided the first coherent theory of evolution by means of natural selection and so the name is used by a set of loosely-associated events, usually organized locally to take place on or about Darwin's birthday, whose aim is to acquaint the public with the theory of evolution by natural selection and its importance to biology. The first event using the name Darwin Day appears to be one organized by The Humanist Community of Palo ...

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Natural selection is the name Charles Darwin gave to the principal process through which new species emerge, or evolve. Combined with Gregor Mendel's theory of genetic inheritance it forms the basis for modern evolutionary theory. Darwin developed this theory by reconsidering the fact that individual members of a population or species tended to vary slightly from one other. Earlier natural scientists viewed variation negatively, as deviation from an ideal exemplar of the species. Darwin, however saw such variation as being, in princip ...

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Pangenesis was Charles Darwin's hypothetical mechanism for heredity. He presented this 'provisional hypothesis' in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication and felt that it brought 'together a multitude of facts which are at present left disconnected by any efficient cause'. The theory itself is now seen as deeply flawed and not supported by observation, yet it represents Darwin's attempt to explain such diverse phenomena as atavisms, the intermediate nature of hybrids (blending inheritance), Lamarckian use a ...

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Coleopterology is the scientific study of beetles (insects of the order Coleoptera). Practitioners are termed coleopterists. As a subfield of entomology, coleopterists share many of the concerns of general entomologists. Taxonomy is somewhat more important to coleopterology, because of the sheer number of beetle species to organize. When speaking informally, coleopterists sometimes refer to their study as beetling. Notable coleopterists include: Charles Darwin Horace Donistho ...

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Interestingly enough, it seems that Darwin's maladies actually may have contributed a lot to what many believe was a long and fruitful creative process in science. George Pickering in his book, "Creative Malady" (1974) wrote that isolated from social life and obligations of a "normal" scientist, such as administrative and teaching work, Darwin had ample time and material comforts for researching, thinking, and writing extensively, which he did. Despite the long periods of unproductivity caused by ill health, Darwin produced much research. Da ...

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Darwin was born in Cambridge into a fine scientific dynasty, the son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and his wife Maud du Puy, and the grandson of Charles Darwin. He was educated at Marlborough College and, in 1910, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in mathematics. No doubt, his family connections helped him to secure an immediate post-graduate position at the Victoria University of Manchester, working under Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr on Rutherford's atomic theory. In 1912, his interests developed into using his mathematical s ...

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Charles Darwin University - Northern Territory University. The Northern Territory University (NTU) was founded in January 1989 from the Darwin Community College (founded 1974 and renamed Darwin Institute of Technology in 1974), and the University College of the Northern Territory (founded 1987). Darwin Community College, later Darwin Institute of Technology, was a combined College of Advanced Education and a TAFE College. It was situated on what is now the Casuarina Campus, altough it used other buildings at various times in Darwin. By the time of the formation of NTU, it gave degr ...

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See also Inception of Darwin's theory. In his later private autobiography, Darwin wrote of this time: "Whilst on board the Beagle (October 1836-January 1839) I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers (though themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality. I suppose it was the novelty of the argument that amused them. But I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the Old Testament; from its manifestly false histo ...

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They visited Hensleigh and Fanny to celebrate the announcement that Frank's wife Amy was five months pregnant, and Charles and Emma would shortly become grandparents. Darwin decided to leave a posthumous memoir for his family, and on Sunday 28 May 1876 he began Recollections of the Development of my mind and character. He found this candid private memoir easy going, covering his childhood, university, life on the Beagle and developing work in science. A section headed "Religious Belief" opened just before his marriage, and frankly dis ...

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The exact nature of Darwin's illness or illnesses remain mysterious at this time. Unless sophisticated molecular probing of his biological remains is allowed, no definitive diagnosis can be reached. At the same time, historical investigations are probabilistic. There appears to be increasing support for the diagnosis that both organic and psychological ailments combined to cause his illness. The issue has become embroiled in the creation-evolution controversy, with allegations that Creationists are drawing attention to interpretation of the illness to damage Darwin's reputation, and counter-allegations tha ...

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As a young child at The Mount, Shrewsbury, Charles Darwin collected Animal shells, postal franks, bird's eggs and minerals. Young Charles was influenced by his father's fashionable interest in natural history. At eight years old, he started school, and would tell elaborate stories "for the pure pleasure of attracting attention & surprise". However, his mother died within the year, and his older sisters took charge, his father dominating the ...

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His father was unhappy that his younger son would not become a physician and feared that Charles would become a "ne'er do well". He therefore enrolled him at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1827 on a BA course to qualify as a clergyman. This was a sensible career move at a time when a "living" as an Anglican parson provided a comfortable income and when most naturalists in England were clergymen who saw it as part of their duties to "explore the wonders of God's creation". Charles had nagging doubts about his faith after all the unorthodoxy o ...

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Charles Darwin was born during the Napoleonic Wars and grew up in their aftermath, a conservative time when Tory dominated government closely associated with the established High Church of England repressed Radicalism, but when family memories recalled the 18th century Enlightenment and a multitude of Non-conformist churches held differing interpretations of Christianity. His Whig supporting extended family of Darwins and Wedgwoods was strongly Unitarian, though one of his grandfathers, Erasmus Darwin, was a freethinker even less restrained ...

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Charles Darwin grew up in a conservative era when repression of revolutionary Radicalism had displaced the 18th century Enlightenment. The Church of England dominated the English scientific establishment. The Church saw natural history as revealing God's underlying plan and as supporting the existing social hierarchy. It rejected Enlightenment philosophers such as David Hume who had argued for naturalism and against belief in God. The discovery of fossils of extinct species was explained by theories such as catastrophism. Catastrophis ...

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