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Health of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin (1809–1882) For much of his adult life, Charles Darwin's health was repeatedly compromised by an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time. However, Darwin himself suggested that, in some ways, this may have helped his work: "Even ill-health, though it ...
Religious views of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin (1809–1882), who proposed the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Charles Darwin's views on religion have been the subject of much interest and dispute. His pivotal work in the development of modern biology and evolution theory played a prominent part in debates about religion ...
Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP [ 5] ( / ˈdɑːrwɪn / [ 6] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [ 7] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and ...
The British naturalist Charles Darwin corresponded with his extended family and with an extraordinarily wide range of people from all over the world. The letters, over 15,000 in all, provide many insights on issues ranging from the origins of key scientific concepts, to religious and philosophical discussions which have continued to the present ...
The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos. The ...
Elizabeth Reid Cotton, [ 1] (9 December 1842 – 8 March 1922) who became Lady Hope when she married Sir James Hope in 1877, was a British evangelist active in the Temperance movement . In 1915, she claimed to have visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882, during which interview Hope said Darwin spoke of ...
18 August 2008. ( 2008-08-18) The Genius of Charles Darwin is a three-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins . It was first shown in August 2008 on Channel 4. [1] It won Best TV Documentary Series 2008 at the British Broadcast Awards in January 2009.
Extracts from Letters to Henslow, taken from ten letters Charles Darwin wrote to John Stevens Henslow from South America during the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, were read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 16 November 1835 by Henslow and Adam Sedgwick, followed on 18 November by geological notes from the letters which Sedgwick read to the Geological Society of London.