• inception of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection in 1838, the development of Darwin's theory to explain the "mystery of mysteries" of how new species...
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  • inception of Darwin's theory occurred during an intensively busy period which began when Charles Darwin returned from the survey voyage of the Beagle...
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    Origin of Species in 1859, including concepts which predated Darwin's theories. English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Darwinism in April...
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    Islands. The term "Darwin's finches" was first applied by Percy Lowe in 1936, and popularised in 1947 by David Lack in his book Darwin's Finches. Lack based...
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    mechanism of evolution. Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. Darwin was born in...
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    Neo-Darwinism is generally used to describe any integration of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics...
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    The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859)...
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    November 1859. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection...
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  • the creation history as an allegory (instead of historical) long before the development of Darwin's theory of evolution. For example, Philo, whose works...
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    Development theory is a collection of theories about how desirable change in society is best achieved. Such theories draw on a variety of social science...
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    of Darwin's theory and forms of social Darwinism, they generally maintain that social Darwinism is not a necessary consequence of the principles of biological...
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    of Darwin's theory brought into the open Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection, the culmination of more than twenty years of...
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  • Queen Victoria in 1840, the search for the source of the Nile and the development of Darwin's theory of Evolution. A time-traveller from the distant future...
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    Struggle for existence (category Charles Darwin)
    or eliminated." Darwin 1859, p. 62 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDarwin1859 (help) Ospovat, Dov. The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History...
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  • computer science, and physics. At the most fundamental level, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution states that organisms evolve and adapt to their environment...
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  • with Charles Darwin's concepts. While often seen as rejecting Darwin's theory of branching evolution for a more linear Lamarckian view of progressive evolution...
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  • childhood, adulthood and old age. Darwin's life (1809–1882) spanned the development of photography, and early portraits of Darwin are drawn or painted, while...
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    William Paley (category British critics of atheism)
    Meadley, G. W. Memoirs of William Paley, to which is Added an Appendix, London, 1809. Ospovat, D. The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural...
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    Carl Gustav Carus (category Presidents of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)
    seminal idea in the development of Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1836, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Carus...
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    For much of his adult life, Charles Darwin's health was repeatedly compromised by an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated...
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    in a bottom-up fashion. In accordance with principles of population biology and Darwin's theory of natural selection – as opposed to the top-down algorithmic...
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    Pangenesis (category Obsolete biology theories)
    Darwin's half-cousin Francis Galton conducted wide-ranging inquiries into heredity which led him to refute Charles Darwin's hypothetical theory of pangenesis...
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    romantic notion of travel and discovery. Prior to Darwin's departure on the H.M.S. Beagle, Henslow bestowed to Darwin the English translation of Humboldt's...
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    historian of science Janet Browne has argued that Darwin's ability to correspond daily played a crucial role in the development of his theory and his ability...
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    Gower Street, London (category Streets in the London Borough of Camden)
    December, and with Emma moved in on the day of their marriage, 29 January 1839. The development of Darwin's theory of natural selection made progress in this...
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    development of Darwin's theory. In particular he had been impressed by fossils he had collected in South America during the voyage of the Beagle of giant...
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  • the idea of the Genesis creation history as an allegory (rather than as an historical description) long before the development of Darwin's theory. An example...
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  • of species and transformism are 18th and early 19th-century ideas about the change of one species into another that preceded Charles Darwin's theory of...
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    detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's theory, originally called descent with modification is known contemporarily as Darwinism or Darwinian...
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  • The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us is a 2017 book by the ornithologist and evolutionary...
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