Contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000 private papers, a Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and supplementary works such as specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works, etc. Texts are searchable.
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On February 16, 1822, the cousin of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton was born. Galton the polymath, was known for his fundamental contributions to anthropology, geographics, genetics, psychology, statistics, and eugenics.
On February 12, 1809, the English naturalist Charles Darwin was born. He popularized the term 'natural selection' as a milestone in modern biology, which was introduced in his masterpiece 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859.
On November 24, 1859, famous biologist and founder of the science of evolution Charles Darwin published his seminal treaty 'On the Origin of Species', which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
On November 14, 1797, Charles Lyell, British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day, was born. Lyell was a close friend to Charles Darwin and is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today.
On November 14, 1797, Charles Lyell, British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day, was born. Lyell was a close friend to Charles Darwin and is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today.
On this day in 1908, the 'Phyletic Museum' was giftet to the University of Jena due to its 350th anniversary by Ernst Haeckel. The famous zoologist was best known for his approaches in evolution theory.
Ja, wer hätte das gedacht... Dieser Gedanke wird wohl früher oder später jedem durch den Kopf gehen, der einen Blick in diese prallgefüllte Wunderkammer werfen durfte, die Bill Brysons 'kurze Geschichte der alltäglichen Dinge' in sich birgt.
I intended yesterday to write a review of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending’s book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. It is a book that I heartily recommend – particularly to those who are not already inclined to sympathy with “genetic-deterministic” arguments, precisely because it is a very, very different sort of book from the sorts of books you might have read.
Why did the program start with the assertion that The Origin of Species was the 'most deadly weapon' of science in its 'war against religion' ?
Has science really waged war against religion for as long as that, or is this just something of the last few decades in response to the growing creationist movement?
Gabriel von Max Bilder lassen offen, ob es dem Maler um ein Gleichnis ging, ob es also den Äffchen in der menschlichen Umgebung ebenso geht wie den Menschen selbst im Gehäuse kultureller Hörigkeit oder ob sie - die Tiere - es sind, die die Menschheit überleben werden. Das undatierte Bild mit dem Titel "Sintflut" zeigt eine verängstigte Affenfamilie in einer Felsspalte, während draußen das Wasser steigt. Hier ist kein Regenbogen in Sicht.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was a book published anonymously in England in 1844. It proposed a natural theory of cosmic and biological evolution, tying together numerous speculative scientific theories of the age, and created considerable political controversy in Victorian society for its radicalism and unorthodoxy.
SOF has worked with Cambridge University Library to present a narrated tour of Darwin's private notebooks and hand sketches with one of the few scholars who knows it best, David Kohn. You can zoom in tight on high-resolution images, listen to a scholar tell you more about why Darwin was writing the selected passages, and read the transcript of Darwin's cryptic handwriting!
Darwin was born 200 years ago, and 50 years later unveiled his theory of natural selection. To mark these anniversaries we bring you the definitive guide to the naturalist's great book, with extracts from key chapters and essays from leading scientists and thinkers including Richard Dawkins and former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries
His books sell in their millions, his TV programmes are rapturously received, and he’s appeared in Doctor Who. Not bad for a 67-year-old academic. Now Richard Dawkins, scourge of creationists, is championing his Victorian hero
Welcome to the Darwin Correspondence Project’s new web site. The main feature of the site is an Online Database with the complete, searchable, texts of around 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin up to the year 1865.