• The immediate reactions, from November 1859 to April 1861, to On the Origin of Species, the book in which Charles Darwin described evolution by natural...
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    On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle...
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    evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family...
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    for the family, though as a sign of things to come, her father had to leave early to deal with business matters. At the age of seven, she was sent to a...
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    publishing his work, in the case of his sudden death. Darwin lived and published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Emma often played the piano for Charles,...
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    expected to have some adaptive feature could be explained easily with his theory of natural selection. In On the Origin of Species, Darwin wrote that to use...
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    Horace Darwin (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    (1902). "On the mathematical theory of errors of judgment, with special reference to the personal equation". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
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    Charles Darwin Research Station (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    as the headquarters for the Foundation, and is used to conduct scientific research and promote environmental education. It is located on the shore of Academy...
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    Robert Darwin (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he apparently took lodgings with the chemistry professor Joseph Black. His father then sent him to the...
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    added these lines to the last chapter, with attribution to "a celebrated author and divine". See the Reactions to On the Origin of Species for developments...
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    genesis 'origin') or the origin of life is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing...
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    Josiah Wedgwood (category Members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham)
    the manufacture of European pottery. The renewed classical enthusiasms of the late 1760s and early 1770s were of major importance to his sales promotion...
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  • Tomorrow, in a Year (category The Knife albums)
    him to overcome his fears about the church's reaction to On the Origin of Species. The music appears to have been composed to reflect the long arc of evolution...
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    they drive the synthesis of ATP and NADPH. The light-dependent reactions are of two forms: cyclic and non-cyclic. In the non-cyclic reaction, the photons...
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    limited movement.  Science portal Social effects of evolutionary theory Reactions to On the Origin of Species Thurs, Daniel Patrick (2004). Science in popular...
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    wrong – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. © 2016 BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC. Retrieved 29 October 2016. Reactions to On the Origin of Species Portraits...
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    Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been efforts by scientists, governments, and others to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2...
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  • recognized. A set of chemical reactions can be said to be "collectively autocatalytic" if a number of those reactions produce, as reaction products, catalysts...
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  • Inclusive fitness in humans (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    humanity. Examples of early controversies include the reactions to On the Origin of Species, and the Scopes Monkey Trial. Examples of later controversies...
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    chemical reactions in which the reactants and products are in the same phase, while heterogeneous reactions have reactants in two or more phases. Reactions that...
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  • analyzing acid–base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent. The first of these concepts was...
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  • The Origin of Species (Russian: «Происхождение видов») is a 1993 short story by Victor Pelevin. The title of the story, "The Origin of Species," refers...
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    Evolution Without Evidence (category University of New Mexico Press books)
    Charles Darwin and "The Origin of Species" is a 1982 book by historian Barry G. Gale. Contrary to the title, the book is not on the Creation–evolution...
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    billion, have gone extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million are documented...
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    proper understanding of the origin of the universe can only be subject to conjecture. The Big Bang explains the evolution of the universe from a starting...
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    published On the Origin of Species that same year, describing the mechanism of biological evolution. While Darwin never publicly wrote about the first organism...
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  • Radiolysis (category Chemical reactions)
    generated while at the same time, chemical reactions can remove hydrogen, and these reactions can be enhanced by the presence of radiation. The balance between...
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    information on a man's fertility. In other cases, such as in the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus, premature acrosome reactions have been found to cause increased...
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    takes to force the nuclei together; this is an exothermic process that can produce self-sustaining reactions. Energy released in most nuclear reactions is...
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  • Primordial soup (category Origin of life)
    On the Origin of Species, his supporters, such as the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, criticised him for not using his theory to explain the origin of...
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