Darwin

Darwin, one of the great plant researchers, proposed what has become known as the "root-brain" hypothesis.

The work of Albert Einstein occurred decades after that of Darwin, but it is no less remarkable in its power to transform our understanding.

Mr Darwin's father Ronald, 91, said he always knew his son was alive but might have been suffering from amnesia.

ETH professor Renato Paro does not believe that this opposes Darwin's theory of evolution.

Darwin seems to have been able to think only with a pen in his hand. He was a compulsive note taker and list maker.

But major issues arise, such as the fact that Darwin did not know about self-organisation.

About a week later (on 11 September) FitzRoy took Darwin out to see the Beagle at Plymouth.

Upon his return to London Darwin conducted thorough research of his notes and specimen.

The next day he and Darwin set off to Northern Wales where Sedgwick gave him a crash course in field geology.

The truth of the matter, much to the chagrin of contemporary biology, is that Darwin's theory should have been laid to rest some time ago.

Charles Darwin himself suspected the wind of being a fickle and inefficient messenger, and that view has largely held until this day.

Although Darwin was the son and grandson of physicians, the most eminent doctors of the day were flummoxed by his symptoms.

Within a week Darwin was addicted to the subject and was ready to go off geologizing on his own.

Charles Darwin, as well as others like T. H. Huxley and Charles Lyell, insisted the age of the Earth must be in the hundreds of millions.

But what is astonishing is how much Darwin did know, and how far he saw.

This off-the-shelf Darwin Chip would then be a module you could plug into any computer, and it would breed stuff for you, fast.

In the eyes of science historians, Darwin's most consequential claim was that the discontinuous face of life as a whole was an illusion.

The unusual, primitive quality of the various creatures gave Darwin a clue to the theory that changes take place in living forms.

The two were already corresponding, and Wallace had more than once generously sent Darwin specimens that he thought might be of interest.

Darwin: You have to understand their mission. Blaster: I understand their hungry bellies. Darwin: God, can you think of Do not eat all day?

And what we try to do in astronomy and cosmology is to go back before Darwin's simple beginning, to set our Earth in a cosmic context.

Among the imperilled animals are the mangrove finch, one of the species known as Darwin's finches in the Galapagos.

Among the many traits that made Charles Darwin one of the greatest minds in science was his pertinacious personality.

In this case, unlike that of natural selection, Darwin's thinking did not set the world alight.

Darwin visited Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti and Tasmania, along with other exotic locales, but he never set foot in the United States.

Darwin wrote one of the few scientific treatises, maybe the only one, worth reading as a work of literature.

Darwin himself, in his autobiography, tells the story of coming up with the idea for natural selection as a classic "eureka! " moment.

But the concept of natural selection, and Darwin's own presentation of it, has one very unfortunate aspect.

The image of each page comes with a window describing the locations of Darwin's notes and a transcription of his somewhat illegible scrawl.

The beginning of that understanding was provided by Darwin, and the application of Darwinism will be an important part of the process.

You know, Darwin explained life after it got started, but what was the essence of life?

Well, the question of origins, as with so many other questions in biology, seems to have been answered by Darwin over a century ago.

Darwin would later say that this work caused him to realize the struggle for limited resources was a fact of life.

Darwin spent twenty years carefully gathering evidence for his theory and anticipating every objection his critics might have.

Darwin thought that only a few animals have an appendix and that the human version was what was left of a digestive organ called the cecum.

So early on, I heard of Charles Darwin. I guess, you know, he was the big hero.

Unlikely, because Charles Darwin was one of the more prominent figures to notice it.

But Darwin also saw that interests at the two levels often conflict sharply. In those cases, he said, individual interests trump.

Birkhead wonders if Darwin was just a Victorian prude or whether having a daughter editing his writing led to some censorship.

There has never been any sight or hint of it in the Darwin market.

Darwin was at home with his wife mourning the death of their 19-month-old son just three days earlier.

It proposes that Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution.

"Darwin's voyage of discovery had already caused a huge sensation in London, " he explained.

Darwin would go with the ship as a naturalist and had to pay his own way.

As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth.

Darwin's views were the result of years of careful observation, thought and study.

I don't know, it's just, you know. . . monkeys, Darwin, you know, it's a, it's a nice story, I just think it's a little too easy.

These were some of the questions Charles Darwin asked himself over years of research in botany, zoology and geology.

Ever since Darwin came up with the whole idea of evolution, there's been one dominant picture of the moment we truly became human.

You and your parents can stop worrying, for Faulkner, Edison, Darwin and lots more were far from being geniuses in their teens.

Few laymen would claim they did not believe Einstein. Yet many seem proud not to believe Darwin.

Moreover, while many of his contemporaries approved of slavery, Darwin did not.

Darwin was an adult before scientists began debating whether germs caused disease and whether physicians should clean their instruments.

Now, after 150 years of searching for fossils since Darwin, zero transitional fossils have been found of the millions of fossils collected.

One of the things we've learned from Darwin is that the human species is only one among millions of cousins, some close, some distant.

It was Darwin's visit on the Beagle to the Galapagos Isles that gave him the key to his new theory.

Much to his surprise, his ideas, like Darwin's, reverberated beyond science, influencing modern culture from painting to poetry.

Darwin's great insight was that species retain randomly occurring new features that improve their survival.

To explain the emergence of cooperation by natural selection has been a fundamental topic of evolutionary biology since Darwin.

I'm going around the world giving talks about Darwin, and usually what I'm talking about is Darwin's strange inversion of reasoning.

A few more weeks passed and by now Darwin was wondering if this adventure was such a good idea.

Darwin learned that the sail date had been postponed until 10 October, and that the voyage may extend longer than two years.

In a week or so, the trumpets will sound, heralding the start of 18 months of non-stop festivities in honor of Charles Darwin.

Within the next century, I predict, Darwin will be seen by most economists as the intellectual founder of their discipline.

The Japanese bombed Darwin and sent some small submarines into Sydney harbour but did not invade Australia.

Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution.

Historians have remarked that here Darwin anticipated the modern concept of an ecological niche.

Charles Darwin once said that contemplating a peacock's tail made him sick, such was the difficulty of explaining its complexity.

"Darwin's Island" , Mr Jones's book, is not, actually, all that much about Darwin.

This orchid, known as Darwin's orchid, because it's one that he studied and made a wonderful prediction when he saw it.

The meeting had been organized by some of Darwin's scientific friends to establish his priority in the discovery.

In the Descent of Man, Darwin attempted to explain this kind of ethical consciousness of the conscience in terms of naturalism completely.

Darwin, you see, was able to approach the subject without having my fears.

Charles Darwin: Suppose the whole world stopped believing that God had any sort of plan for us?

Growing up in Brooklyn, he dreamed of being Shackleton at the South Pole or Darwin on board the Beagle.

Kingsley himself was a Reverend, but he was not against the at-the-time very controversial publications of Charles Darwin.

Interestingly , Charles Darwin was born a very lightly pigmented man, in a moderately -to- darkly pigmented world .

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature so Marx discovered the law of development of human history.

It is of the same status as the historical statement; "Charles Darwin and Francis Galton had a common grandfather" .

A governor of the Galapagos Islands told Darwin that he could tell from which one of the various islands each tortoise came.

In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty.

And she was most likely rescued from the soup tureen that she strongly resembled by Charles Darwin .

Since the Darwin quake, that segment of fault has been "quiet, silent" in terms of large earthquakes, says Vigny.

A century and a half after Darwin suggested natural selection as the mechanism of evolution, engineers have proved him right once again.

But Darwin was here in the heat of the midday sun and, without a canteen, hoped the lake might quench his thirst.

The numbers of American marines to be based in Darwin may be modest but the strategic significance is not.

By the time Darwin died in 1882, he was recognized as one of England's greatest scientists and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Darwin frog: The male Darwin frog hatches his eggs in a pouch in his mouth.

Such compassion seems not to have been extended to the fish, nor to the 55 partridges that Darwin bagged in a single week of shooting.

If Darwin had come here, I think we would have had the theory of evolution published a lot sooner.

His shimmering train of feathers tipped with eye-shaped spots ranks among the most cited examples of what Darwin called sexual selection.

Darwin was a humanitarian, and in some ways deeply religious, so this, surely, is not what he would have wanted.

Darwin wrote it all down in his notebooks.

STEVE EMBER: Darwin sent much of what he collected back to England on other ships the Beagle met along the way.

By the time Darwin was a student in Edinburgh and Cambridge, though, this was being questioned.

Devoid of trees at the time of Darwin and Hooker's visits, the little rain that did fall quickly evaporated away.

The truth is, as ever, more complex. Darwin was too interesting, too careful a thinker to be caricatured in these ways.

Det Chief Insp Paul Beddow said: "We are pleased Mr Darwin has been located and any interviews with him are a matter of procedure. "

Darwin was terribly seasick and was only happy when he was ashore collecting plant samples and observing animals.

Charles Darwin's historic voyage to these islands forever changed our view of the world, yet he only scratched the surface.

Facing a daunting problem in natural history, Darwin would obstinately chip away at it until its secrets relented.

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Darwin's theory of evolution as a background to develop the game, played by the audience is an ancient times the fish.

As well as the paid help, Darwin could also rely on the college "gyp" , the Cambridge nickname for a valet or servant.

That humanity is one and indivisible would have been taken for granted until about the time of Darwin's birth.

Following the well-received address, Obama was to jet off to Darwin, where the Marines will begin training at Australian bases next year.

Since Darwin, the pioneering naturalist, never thought of himself as an economist, the question seems absurd.

Darwin was also in the grip of an idea so subversive that he would keep it under wraps for another two decades.

It was an idea whose time had come, with or without Darwin.

The supposedly immutable 'species barrier' had finally been broken, at least in Darwin's own mind.

Darwin's aesthetic theory is one of the cornerstones of scientific theories of humanist eco-aesthetics.

Darwin returned to Shrewsbury on 2 October to say his final farewells and then set out to London.

Fossil remains were not the only information which we now possess but which Darwin lacked .

Darwin included engravings of his finches in his first book, "The Voyage of the Beagle. "

Among the earliest and most fervent supporters of Darwin's scandalous theories were Protestant theologians and seminarians .

There are passages where you can read it, and you think you're reading from a Darwin textbook, from the period before he has this epiphany.

At present, the fields of academe and science regard the scientific study of criticizing Darwin's theory as a forbidden zone.

To Darwin's supporters, Mr Ball points out that decoding the honeybee genome still does not explain how the bee makes the honeycomb.

Upon arriving at Maer Hall Darwin spoke to his uncle Josiah about the voyage, and presented his father's objections to it.

In South America, mysterious rocks weren't all that Darwin found.

Fukuyama seems to be a warning, according to Darwin's view, the Chinese system may be more adaptive than the free country.

In the early paragraphs he refers to the universal struggle of life, a term which he lifted from Darwin.

The possibility that anything is seriously amiss with Darwin's account of evolution is hardly considered.

But there is considerable overlap between FreeBSD and Darwin development, and quite a few FreeBSD developers are Apple employees.

It turns out, though, that even Darwin and Wallace were not the first to put the pieces together.

One of Darwin's nagging problems was to discover where this variation originated.

Adrian Desmond and James Moore have come up with something astonishing: a radical new explanation of the force that drove Darwin.

Darwin had no thoughts of evolution and only unclear thoughts of it when it finished.

Charles Darwin's thinking about the natural world was profoundly influenced by his revulsion for slavery.

In the stress of getting his journals and the reports on them ready for publication, Darwin began to suffer from an unknown illness.

Thoreau was also one of the first American supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution.

What we are trying to code here is the origin of the species that Darwin overlooked--the origin of the small species.

Charles Darwin was once invited to dinner. He happed to be sitting with a beautiful young lady.

Charles Darwin taught us that evolution has no direction.

And Darwin, throughout, was in the grip of something very similar: a terrible, destabilising sense of wonder.

In "The Origin of Species, " Darwin speculated on how natural selection could turn a land mammal into a whale.

I sell my services under the pseudonym "Charles Darwin, " and not a single client seems to realize that's not my real name.

Darwin acknowledge Germany as the front-runner in the battle to change everyone's way of thinking.

Yet, thinks Professor Catling, amid this wild desolation, Darwin began to hatch a plot.

When he arrived Darwin learned that Capt. FitzRoy may have already selected another person as naturalist for the voyage.

So, this is DARwIn IV, again, you'll be able to see it in the lobby.

So far, no alternative theory has provided the required demonstration to meet Darwin's challenge.

Darwin did not help, blowing apart the first book of the Bible.

Darwin read Malthus in 1838 and immediately realized how it applied to his own work.

The memetic perspective can be used to explain cultural evolution on the basis of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

It were Charles Darwin who first suggested dance were part of courtship rituals, event confirmed in nightclubs eVery abundance weekend.

The concept of ecology finds its immediate historical origins in Darwin's "web of life" .

Later, he read Charles Darwin's diaries and was riveted by the notion of travelling and making scientific discoveries.

Before Darwin, natural philosophers held a point of view called typology, or essentialism. Members of a particular class were allthesame.

There was strong support for scientists including Steven Hawking, the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, and Michael Faraday.

Darwin himself was deeply troubled by his materialist thoughts and what they meant.

And who'd ask for a refund on a sprog with something in common with figures as notable as Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Darwin or Shaun White?

Darwin focused on the existence of evolution by natural selection; the mechanisms that drive the process were a complete mystery to him.

This means that the console-mode server (for pure Darwin) got started while you were logged into Aqua.

This is not to say that the "Origin" is flawless, or that Darwin was right in every respect.

Until Darwin, evolution had been confined to the smallest corner of the intellectual elite.

Darwin emphasized "many slight differences" as the ultimate source of variation to be acted upon by natural selection.

The fact that modern biology relies on the Darwin's theory leaves little space for debating this question at the scientific level.

Later that afternoon Darwin took up lodgings at 17 Spring Gardens, just around the corner from Whitehall.

The expedition vised around the world, and Darwin studied plants and animals everywhere he went, collecting specimen for further study.

In London he and Charles Darwin were both abashed when introduced to each other as "great men" .

Since Darwin, biologists have been firmly convinced that nature works without plan or meaning, pursuing no aim by the direct road of design.

Thus the germ of his own evolution theory was planted in Darwin's mind.

Memetics, based on Darwin's evolutionary theory, is now a new pragmatic theory to reveal the law of cultural transmission.

"Darwin never saw these boulders, " he said.

Darwin wrote to Lyell that your words have come true with a vengeance, . . .

Thinkers from Aristotle to Voltaire and Charles Darwin have been fascinated by salamander regeneration, though they barely understood it.

Charles Darwin was driven to uncover such mysteries by looking closely at his own backyard in Kent, England.

When an insect flies into the web, it becomes stuck, and its struggles causes the silk lines to vibrate, alerting the Darwin's bark spider.

Darwin's insight was to show that evolution could produce outcomes beyond the scope of even the most complex calculations.

Darwin was not a dispassionate scientist, he was a passionate humanitarian.

In contrast, Darwin argued that evolution works not through the fire of effort but through cold, impartial selection.

And yet every student knows about Darwin today.

Studies like this offer a new twist on Charles Darwin's original ideas about evolution.

Charles Darwin had poor health much of his life. He suffered headaches and problems with his skin and stomach.

It was Charles Darwin who first suggested dance was part of courtship rituals, something confirmed in nightclubs every weekend.

One day, Darwin took a piece of bark off a tree, and found two rare beetles. He quickly caught them, one in each hand.

Darwin, who was 84 years younger than Lamarck, was the better scientist, and he won the day.

"Darwin's starting point, " they write, "was the abolitionist belief in blood kinship, a 'common descent' " of all human beings.

And although often painted as a recluse, Darwin served as a local magistrate, meting out justice in his dining room.

Besides, Darwin is considered by some historians to have not confirm the achievements that formers did to evolutionism duly.

To compound his misery, Darwin's youngest son, also named Charles, had contracted scarlet fever and was critically ill.

Galapagos Beyond Darwin takes a scientific and photographic look at marine and terrestrial life of the Galapagos Islands.

Darwin was a keen observer, an accurate reporter, and an indefatigable collector.

At this fantastic news, Darwin bounded forth in ecstasy, the sound of his geological hammer ringing from hill to hill.

But by "we, " she meant the community of Darwin scholars that have access to all of this fascinating stuff.

If Darwin had known about species that had both organs, he probably would have revised his views of the appendix, the researchers note.

These are the creatures that provided Darwin with the flash of imagination that led to his theory of evolution.

Emma Darwin: Do you not care that you and I may be separated for all eternity?

In this well-educated family, Darwin was considered to be rather dull. At one time his school headmaster called him a dullard.

Well let me school you. Darwin wins inside these walls. Not Einstein. Darwin.

We see that meeting as important now because of what happened next: it galvanized Darwin into writing and publishing the "Origin. "

READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it.

Darwin could almost get away with explanations of evolution in other parts of the animal world.

Being a writer is in defiance of Darwin's observation that the more highly specialized a species, the more likely its extinction.

Darwin himself preferred agnostic -- and not only out of loyalty to his friend Huxley, who coined the term.

Naturalist Charles Darwin's five-year voyage on the Beagle changed the face of modern science and our understanding of human existence.

The bills were paid by his wealthy father, Robert Darwin, a doctor.

It asserts without shame, fear or compromise that Darwin's theory of evolution is, quite simply, true.

What Darwin had to say about evolution basically begins and ends right there.

Most important of all, they seem to distil Darwin to his essence.

In other words, there was a certain inevitability to Darwin's theory.

In The Origin of Species Darwin writes of the relative "profitability" of adaptations while describing habitats as "economies" .

Sexual attraction often boils down to what Darwin called "female choice. "

naturally associate the name of Darwin with the doctrine of evolution.

In Darwin's day he was quite puzzled by the fact that nobody wanted to embrace his new theory.

The spectaculars will also be held in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin and Christchurch.

The book was full of notes taken as Darwin recorded the unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands in 1835.

Born in Shrewsbury, England, in 1809, Darwin was the son of a wealthy doctor.

Against the onrush of this madness, the Darwin exhibition in New York attempts to draw a line.

Charles Darwin was the first scholar to propose that you can read people's faces.

This has troubled many, including Darwin himself, as it subverted ideas of divine intervention.

To understand human behaviour properly, the world needs Darwin.

We naturally associate the name of Darwin with the doctrine of evolution.

Memetics is the new theory combing Darwin's Theory of Adaptation and culture, which has the great explanatory power.

Some congressional Republicans are just backward, rejecting modern economics on the same basis that they reject Darwin and climate science.

Darwin also wondered at the origins of the wolves, which were unusually small, and had reddish fur and relatively short jaws.

Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?

Unfortunately, by the time Darwin arrived in the Falklands, the wolves were being killed for their fur, and their numbers were in decline.

A rabbi, a descendant of Charles Darwin, a philosopher and a scholar walk into an auditorium.

These minimal eyes, called eyespots , resemble the 'proto-eyes' suggested by Charles Darwin as the first eyes to appear in animal evolution.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Darwin and his followers taught us that it takes many generations to rewrite this basic genetic code.

Darwin's rental yields have made it attractive to people still searching for investments.

As a consequence, we have an emerging fossil record of flowering plants that includes many extinct taxa and would have delighted Darwin.

This week a contingent of 200 US marines arrived in Darwin, while India took formal charge of a nuclear submarine, leased from Russia.

The consequence is what Darwin described in his book as a "struggle for existence" .

Environmental groups claim shark finning in Northern Territory waters is being carried out by boats operating out of Darwin Harbour.

Darwin presented compelling evidence for evolution in On the Origin and, since his time, the case has become overwhelming.

A project about Darwin was led by science teachers but backed by a dialogue among the school's religious instructors.

My hero, Charles Darwin, had sex at least ten times.

Charles Darwin may have paid dearly for his legendary voyage on the HMS Beagle. He sacrificed his health.

Police have sealed off the centre of Darwin and are telling shoppers to stay away.

The bizarre metamorphosis that occurs in halibut and other flatfish had even Charles Darwin floundering for an explanation.

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Being the founder of evolutionary ethics, Darwin expressed his moral values when describing and explaining the phenomenon of human morality.

Most were taking the train for pleasure and intended to fly home from Darwin.

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New York's Darwin exhibition - which will reach London for the Darwin bicentenary in 2009 - is a model of its kind.

Parasitic fly larvae began attacking hatchlings of the Darwin finch a few years ago.

The vehicle was stopped, and Jones was saved from a nearly certain Darwin Award win by a fortuitously placed wire fence.

In effect, what Darwin, Hooker and the Royal Navy achieved was the world's first experiment in "terra-forming" .

Darwin was generally healthy before his 5-year voyage on the Beagle - although he was seasick for most of his time at sea.

Darwin was neither the first to recognise these simple ideas nor to put them together.

In the mean time, some of our schools are disputing Darwin's evolution theory as satanic!

Charles Robert Darwin, English biologist, founder of the theory of evolution.

One fine day Torrey T. Lyons came along and gave the Darwin patches the attention they had been waiting for.

Lincoln and Darwin were both revolutionaries, in the sense that both men upended realities that prevailed when they were born.

Darwin's evolutionary theories are the theoretical basis for this cognition. F. R.

Madeira's ancient landscape, together with its 550 species of beetle, merits mention by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species (1859).