Charles Darwin

26/05/2010 Posted by fishsnorkel in In the Words of Charles Darwin:, Soldiers of Life, Species Splitting, Sustainability, conservation madness. Tags: charles darwin quotations, charles darwin's discoveries, conservation ethics, darwin exposition, darwin quotations, enviromental ethics, ethics of conservation, natral history, natrual history, natrual histroy, natrual science, natural histor, natural history, natural history online, natural history science, natural histroy, naturalhistory...Read Full Story

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Darwin Feb. 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882.Read Full Story

Director Jon Amiel was present at the Inherit the Wind screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and participated in a fantastic panel comprised of individuals accomplished in both film and science.You may have seen some of his previous films, Entrapment, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Copycat and [...]Read Full Story

Before reading this quote, it might be worth having a quick look at the Compact Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the word eugenics, because it doesn’t always involve psychopathic ethnic cleansing: “Eugenics: the science of using controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics in a population.” This can be rephrased as follows: Eugenics: the science of using controlled breeding to decrease the occurrence of undesirable heritable characteristics in...Read Full Story

Charles Darwin on the ubitquitous misconception about the reality of nature (one of several Charles Darwin quotations from The Origin of Species 1859): “We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and...Read Full Story

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Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of February of the year 1809 and he passed away on the 19th of April of the year 1882. He was an English biologist and naturalist and is renowned around the world for presented the theory of evolution. He was the first scientist who presented the concept that all the various species of living organisms have descended from a single common ancestry over a long period of time. The branching of the different organisms was based on the differences in the...Read Full Story

“Malm states that the newly-hatched young of perches, salmon, and several other symmetrical fishes, have the habit of occasionally resting on one side at the bottom; and he has observed that they often then strain their lower eyes so as to look upwards; and their skulls are thus rendered rather crooked. These fishes, however, are soon able to hold themselves in a vertical position, and no permanent effect is thus produced. With the Pleuronectidæ, on the other hand, the older they grow the...Read Full Story

Charles Darwin: Evolutionist Studied medicine at Edinburgh UniversityStudied theology at Christ's College, Cambridge University (1827) Studied geology at Cambridge University Naturalist on the 5 year surveying expedition of HMS Beagle (1831-1836) Secretary of the Geological Society (1838-41) Books: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) / The Fertilization of Orchids (1862) / The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication (1867), and The Descent of Man and...Read Full Story