Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.

He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

* Charles Robert Darwin

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

In 1795, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, asked:

During Charles Darwin's studies on the Galápagos Islands, Darwin observed 13 species of finches that are closely related and differ most markedly in the shape of their beaks.

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Charles Darwin ( 1809-1882 )

It has been hypothesized that Charles Darwin might have suffered from Chagas disease as a result of a bite of the so-called great black bug of the Pampas ( vinchuca ) ( see Charles Darwin's illness ).

* Creation ( 2009 film ), a 2009 film by Jon Amiel about the life of Charles Darwin

Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.

Lyell's interpretation of geologic change as the steady accumulation of minute changes over enormously long spans of time was a powerful influence on the young Charles Darwin.

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* Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Charles Galton Darwin ( 1887 – 1962 ), physicist and activist

The phrase was coined by Charles Moskos, a military sociologist.

The term itself was coined by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of The Bell Curve.

The term " nociception " was coined by Charles Scott Sherrington to distinguish the physiological process ( nervous activity ) from pain ( a subjective experience ).

Its current name was coined by Charles L. Bouton of Harvard University, who also developed the complete theory of the game in 1901, but the origins of the name were never fully explained.

Grant's political opponents used the phrase Grantism, coined by Sen. Charles Sumner during the Presidential election of 1872, to describe the many corruption charges during the Grant Administration.

The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized in 1910 by Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering, and Williamina Fleming ;< sup >, p. 1 </ sup > the name white dwarf was coined by Willem Luyten in 1922.

Some argue that Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun coined the term related to the hype of the city's promoters.

Charles Horton Cooley ( 1902-1983 ) coined the term looking glass self, which means self-image based on how we think others see us.

The genus name, coined by Charles Plumier, a French patron of botany, honors Michel Bégon, a former governor of the French colony of Haiti.

The name " Stuckism " was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish.

Professor Diaconis received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, and in 1992 published ( with Dave Bayer ) a paper entitled " Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair " ( a term coined by magician Charles Jordan in the early 1900s ) which established rigorous results on how many times a deck of playing cards must be riffle shuffled before it can be considered random according to the mathematical measure total variation distance.

The appellation " Abominable Snowman " was coined in 1921, the same year Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury led the joint Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society " Everest Reconnaissance Expedition " which he chronicled in Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921.

Charles Henry, a large stock holder, coined the term " Interurban " in 1893.

The British sociologist Herbert Spencer coined the phrase " survival of the fittest " ( though originally, and perhaps more accurately, " survival of the best fitted ") in his 1864 work Principles of Biology to characterise what Charles Darwin had called natural selection.

The term integralism was coined by the French journalist Charles Maurras, whose conception of nationalism was illiberal and anti-internationalist, elevating the interest of the state above that of the individual and above humanity in general.

The term was coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finney referred to a " burnt district " to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening.

Ray's producer / partner Charles H. Schneer coined the word Dynamation as a " merchandising term " ( modifying it to " SuperDynaMation " and then " Dynarama " for some subsequent films ).

It was coined by Charles De Geer in 1773.

The term " Gilded Age " was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, employing the ironic difference between a " gilded " and a Golden Age.

Othniel Charles Marsh, who coined the name Theropoda.

He wrote finely crafted pieces using " dissonant counterpoint ", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles ' music.

The term was coined by Charles Darwin in his On the Origin of Species, when discussing Ornithorhynchus ( the platypus ) and Lepidosiren ( the South American lungfish ):

Charles Reznikoff ( August 31, 1894-January 22, 1976 ) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined.