12 February 2009, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy worldwide, offered the public a widely participated international conference which represented the national opening of Darwin Year and one of the most important events organized in Italy and Europe for the celebrations....
Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839. After living for a number of years in London, the couple eventually moved to Down House, in Downe, Kent (which is now open to public visits, south of Orpington). Darwin and his wife had ten children, three of whom died early. (see Leon...
A most important direct contribution was the monograph on the Cirripedia, a "most curious form" found in the coast of Chile, that "was of considerable use to me, when I had to discuss in The Origin of Species the principles of a natural classification" (Autobiography). Darwin's passing ...
(Charles Darwin, letter to Henry Fawcett, who had defended Darwin before the British Association for the Advancement of Science against a critic who said Darwin's book was too theoretical and that he should have just "'put his facts before us and let them rest," quoted from Michael Shermer,...
Bruce Lipton talks about Charles Darwin [video] Bruce Lipton April 8, 2011 How do you feel about Charles Darwin? There is an interesting story unbeknownst to the general public about how Charles Darwin became the icon for evolution that he is today. There are some other important figures ...
1. Darwin married his first cousin Darwin was the king of logic. He applied this way of thinking even to his personal life. In fact, he made a careful list of the pros and cons of marrying Emma Wedgwood. On the cons side, getting married for Darwin would mean a loss of “freedom to...
Darwin's opinions on free will are important, because his two-step process of chance-driven genetic variation followed by lawful natural selection is so similar to moderntwo-stage modelsof free will, including the first such model, proposed by William James. ...
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Charles Darwin’s five-year voyage in the early 1830s on H.M.S. Beagle has become legendary, as insights gained by the bright young scientist on his trip to exotic places greatly influenced his masterwork, the book "On the Origin of Species." ...
The British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) began and ended his almost 45-year-long career with observations, experiments, and theories related to earthworms. About six months before his death, Darwin published his book on The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms, Wit...