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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (October 22, 1783-September 18, 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life. Many would call him a genius, but also an eccentric, sometimes close to insanity. He was very successful in various fields of knowledge; zoologist, botanist, malacologist, meteorologist, writer, evolutionist, polyglot, translator. He wrote prolifically on such diverse topics as anthropology, biology, geology, and linguistics; but was honored in none during his lifetime. ...

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The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or argument by lack of imagination, is the assertion that if something is currently inexplicable to some people, then it did not (or could not) happen, or that if evidence of something has not been scientifically proven to their satisfaction, then it cannot exist. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is an adage used to explain that one's own "ignorance" (or, one's "absence of evidence") does not disprove anything (or, "is not evidence of absence"). In other words, mere personal belief, poor logic, ...

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The Origin of Species - Before The Origin. The idea of biological evolution was supported in Classical times by the Greek and Roman atomists, notably Lucretius. With the dominance of Christianity came belief in the Biblical story of creation according to Genesis, with the doctrine that God had directly "Created kinds" of organisms which were immutable. Other ideas resurfaced, and in 17th century English the word evolution (from the Latin word "evolutio", meaning "unroll like a scroll") began to be used to refer to an orderly sequence of events, particularly one in which the out ...

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UCI's academic year is divided into three quarters each with ten weeks of instruction and one week of finals. The university requires a minimum of 12 quarter units of courses to be considered full-time status to a maximum of 20 units. (The maximum can be exceeded by petition or by enrollment in the honors program.) Courses offered are usually worth between 1 to 5 quarter units. Summer courses are offered in either the quarter format of 11 weeks or two sum ...

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - Josiah Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was a noted potter and a friend of Erasmus Darwin; in 1780 on the death of Josiah Wedgwood's long-time business partner Thomas Bentley, Wedgwood turned to his friend Erasmus Darwin for help in running the business. As a result of the close association that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, one of Josiah's daughters later married Erasmus' son Robert. One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, also married a ...

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Irving Copi writes that: The argumentum ad ignorantiam [fallacy] is committed whenever it is argued that a proposition is true simply on the basis that it has not been proved false, or that it is false because it has not been proved true. He adds, A qualification should be made at this point. In some circumstances it can be safely assumed that if a certain event had occurred, evidence of it could be discovered by qualified investigators. In such circumstances it is perfectly reasonable to take the absence of proof of its occurrence despite searching, as positive evid ...

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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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The Origin of Species - Before The Origin. Main article: history of evolutionary thought The idea of biological evolution was supported in Classical times by the Greek and Roman atomists, notably Lucretius. With the dominance of Christianity came belief in the Biblical story of creation according to Genesis, with the doctrine that God had directly "Created kinds" of organisms which were immutable. Other ideas resurfaced, and in 17th century English the word evolution (from ...

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - Charles Darwin. The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theory of evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. Charles Robert Darwin was a son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. He married Emma Wedgwood, a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II and Elizabeth Allen. Charles's mother, Susannah, was a sister to Emma's father, Josiah II. Thus, Charles and Emma were first cousins. Because of intermarr ...

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - Robert Darwin. The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury, whose own income as a physician to the rich together with astute investment of his inherited wealth enabled him to fund his son Charles Darwin's place on the Voyage of the Beagle and then give him the private income needed to support Charles' chosen vocation in natural history that led to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution. He married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood ...

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - William Darwin Fox. The Rev. William Darwin Fox (1805-1880) was a second cousin of Charles Darwin and an entomologist, who was a friend of Charles Darwin at Cambridge. ...

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In the 2006 U.S. News & World Report survey, UCI is ranked 4th among public universities in California, 10th among all public universities in the U.S., and 40th among all universities in the U.S., public or private. UCI is fifth in applications received in the UC system, behind UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and Berkeley, and was tied with UC Davis as the fifth-most selective UC school in freshman admissions for Fall 2005. UCI's Master of Fine Arts degree program in creative writing is ranked 6th nationally by US News and World Report, and ...

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In the spring of 1856 Lyell drew Darwin's attention to a paper on the "introduction" of species written by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist working in Borneo, and urged Darwin to publish to establish priority. Darwin was now torn between the desire to set out a full and convincing account, and the pressure to quickly produce a short paper. He ruled out exposing himself to an editor or counsel which would have been required to publish in an academic j ...

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The Origin of Species, The Origin of Species - Background, The Origin of Species - Before The Origin, The Origin of Species - Inception of Darwin's theory, The Origin of Species - First writings on the theory, The Origin of Species - Publication, The Origin of Species - Publication of The Origin, The Origin of Species - Darwin's theory as presented, The Origin of Species - A firm base, The Origin of Species - A minor mistake - or precaution, The Origin of Species - Public reaction, The Origin of Species - Misconceptions and comparison to Wallace's theory, The Origin of Species - Philosophical implications

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - Richard Keynes. Professor Richard Keynes FRS (b. 1919) is a British physiologist. Darwin — Wedgwood family - Quentin Keynes. Quentin Keynes (1921-2003) was a bibliophile and explorer. Darwin — Wedgwood family - Robin Darwin. Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin (1910–1974) was an artist. < ...

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - Charles Galton Darwin. Charles Galton Darwin 1887-1962 was the son of George Howard Darwin (see above) and was a noted physicist. Darwin — Wedgwood family - Gwen Raverat. Gwen Raverat (nee Darwin) (1885-1957) was the daughter of George Howard Darwin and was an artist. She married the French artist Jacques Raverat in 1911. Her drily amusing childhood memoir, Period Piece, contains illustrations of and anecdotes about many of the Darwin — Wedgwood clan. < ...

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Darwin — Wedgwood family - George Howard Darwin. George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an astronomer and mathematician. He married Martha (Maud) du Puy of Philadelphia. They had four children: Charles Galton Darwin (see below) William Robert Darwin (married Sarah Monica Slingsby) Gwendoline "Gwen" Darwin, painter; (see below) Margaret Elizabeth (married Geoffrey Keynes, bibliophile); see below < ...

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Darwin went to Edinburgh University in 1825 to study medicine, accompanied by Eras doing his external hospital study. Charles was a diligent student, but too sensitive to the sight of blood. At Edinburgh his disgust at the anatomy lectures of professor Alexander Munro III and his revulsion at the brutality of surgery at the time led him to neglect his medical studies, but he enjoyed the chemistry lectures. Darwin wrote home that "I am going to learn to stuff birds, from a blackamoor... he only charges one guinea, for an hour every day for tw ...

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Graduate students are housed at the Verano and Palo Verde apartments. Freshmen are typically assigned to live in either the Middle Earth or Mesa Court residence halls, while non-freshmen undergraduates live in the Campus Village, Arroyo Vista, or Vista Del Campo housing complexes, or in one of the many apartment complexes off-campus. Because of increasing enrollment in recent years, on-campus housing is only guaranteed for freshmen and transfer students. However, plans for two-year guaranteed housing are in motion with the opening of the latest on-campus housing complex, Vista Del Campo, and the ...

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After the publication of Darwin's book, evolution by means of natural selection was widely discussed and debated. As well as attracting attention from naturalists and learned religious people, Huxley's "working-men's lectures" proved very popular and the 6th edition was halved in price, successfully increasing sales to meet this demand. The book was highly controversial when first published, as it contradicted the then-prevailing theory of establishment scientists, of immediate, divine design in nature, and conflicted with a literal r ...

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The Origin of Species, The Origin of Species - Background, The Origin of Species - Before The Origin, The Origin of Species - Inception of Darwin's theory, The Origin of Species - First writings on the theory, The Origin of Species - Publication, The Origin of Species - Publication of The Origin, The Origin of Species - Darwin's theory as presented, The Origin of Species - A firm base, The Origin of Species - A minor mistake - or precaution, The Origin of Species - Public reaction, The Origin of Species - Misconceptions and comparison to Wallace's theory, The Origin of Species - Philosophical implications

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Contrary to popular understanding, Darwin did not "discover" evolution as is clear from the history of evolutionary thought. Even in his own day it was a well-known concept, although not one defended by the scientific community. As he subsequently acknowledged, others before him published brief statements outlining the principle of natural selection, but he was not aware of these little known statements until after publication of the Origin. Instead, he and Wallace put forth the first convincing and coherent mechanism of evolution: na ...

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The Origin of Species, The Origin of Species - Background, The Origin of Species - Before The Origin, The Origin of Species - Inception of Darwin's theory, The Origin of Species - First writings on the theory, The Origin of Species - Publication, The Origin of Species - Publication of The Origin, The Origin of Species - Darwin's theory as presented, The Origin of Species - A firm base, The Origin of Species - A minor mistake - or precaution, The Origin of Species - Public reaction, The Origin of Species - Misconceptions and comparison to Wallace's theory, The Origin of Species - Philosophical implications

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