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29 mag 2024 · Encouraged by Lyell, Darwin continued writing through the birth of his 10th and last child, Charles Waring Darwin (born in 1856, when Emma was 48), who was developmentally disabled. Whereas in the 1830s Darwin had thought that species remained perfectly adapted until the environment changed, he now believed that every new variation ...
2 giorni fa · How do you root your fiction in history without getting stuck in the mud? How do you set your imagination flying when you have to look everything up? Join novelist Emma Darwin, author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction, at the I Am Writing Festival, for a masterclass in writing historical fiction.
29 mag 2024 · Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent) was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.
- Adrian J. Desmond
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
4 giorni fa · Evolutionary biology. 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 for Life) [3] is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
- Charles Darwin
- 1859
10 giu 2024 · Darwin is the most famous sick scientist ever, but the reason for his strange medical ordeals has eluded researchers and clinicians for well over a century. In an all-too-brief chapter, Markel reviews the case, then makes a determination: “This physician believes
2 giorni fa · Epsilon: DCP-LETT-4330F. From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863] Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4330F.xml. Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11.
2 giorni fa · From Emma Darwin to Fanny Allen [8 May 1865] My dearest Aunt Fanny. I have been wanting to write to you but Charles was so unwell with some sickness for 10 days that my time was full. He is now quite as well as usual again.
