In September '76 Thomas Huxley, Darwin's famous disciple, came from England to speak in a crowded auditorium at the formal opening of the University ; ;

Charles Darwin's early interest in nature led him on a five-year voyage on which established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN ( 5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865 ) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality.

* 1820 — HMS Beagle ; ship used on naturalist Charles Darwin's famous voyage.

Lack's most famous work is Darwin's Finches, a landmark study whose title linked Darwin's name with the Galapagos group of species and popularised the term " Darwin's finches " in 1947, though the term had been introduced by Percy Lowe in 1936 .< ref >

One famous example is Charles Darwin's deathbed conversion in which it was claimed by Lady Hope that Darwin said:

He was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and edited accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle into The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of the H. M. S.

The Archaeopteryx is a transitional fossil ; and the time of its discovery was apt: coming on the heels of Darwin's 1859 magnum opus, The Origin of Species, made it quite possibly the most famous fossil in the world.

The most famous confrontation took place at the public 1860 Oxford evolution debate during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when the Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce argued against Darwin's explanation.

Yan Fu (; courtesy name: Ji Dao, 幾道 ; 8 January 1854 — 27 October 1921 ) was a Chinese scholar and translator, most famous for introducing western ideas, including Darwin's " natural selection ," to China in the late 19th century.

Darwin's finches are a clear and famous example of divergent evolution, in which an ancestral species adaptive radiation | radiates into a number of descendant species with both similar and different traits.

Much of this writing does not rise to the level of being regarded as literature but one book in particular, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, remains famous.

He design a British postage stamp in 1999 titled Darwin's theory as part of a series on famous British scientists.

He was also responsible for closing Darwin's Lake Leanyer after a coronial inquest into a death there.

The book is divided into the following chapters, each of which describes types of movements based on Darwin's specific experiments and their results.

In the last chapter of Darwin's Black Box, Behe goes on to explain his view that irreducible complexity is evidence for intelligent design.

Darwin's view, that early embryonic stages are similar to the same embryonic stage of related species but not to the adult stages of these species, has been confirmed by modern evolutionary developmental biology.

While some commentators have taken this as a concession to religion that Darwin later regretted, Darwin's view at the time was of God creating life through the laws of nature, and even in the first edition there are several references to " creation ".

The Social Darwinists ' view is derived from Charles Darwin's interpretation of evolution by natural selection, which is explicitly competitive (" survival of the fittest "), Malthusian (" struggle for existence "), even gladiatorial (" red in tooth and claw "), and permeated by the Victorian laissez-faire ethos of Darwin and his disciples ( such as T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer ).

This view of the animal origins of distinctive human characteristics later received support from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The species are so distinct that when Charles Darwin collected them in the islands he thought they were completely different birds, and it was only when he was back in London in 1837 that the ornithologist John Gould revealed that they were closely allied, reinforcing Darwin's growing view that “ species are not immutable .” The adaptations of their numerous species, in three genera, show diverging evolution to exploit several ecological niches in the rugged and dry Galápagos Islands.

The neo-Lamarckian version of evolution was more popular than Darwin's in the late 19th century as it made it possible for biological evolution to fit into a framework of a divine or natural directed plan, thus the neo-Lamarckian view of evolution was often advocated by proponents of orthogenesis.

Müller was wary of Darwin's work on human evolution, and attacked his view of the development of human faculties.

His original view, described in the paper " On the Origin of Genera " ( 1868 ), held that while Darwin's natural selection may affect the preservation of superficial characteristics in organisms, natural selection alone could not explain the formation of genera.

In Darwin's view, anything that could be expected to have some adaptive feature could be explained easily with his theory of natural selection.

" He has also stated that " Darwin's theory of macroevolution is plainly wrong, on strictly scientific grounds " and " is, in my view, a rather obvious fraud, which cannot withstand the mildest scrutiny " and that " benefits of embryonic stem cell research have been vastly oversold ".

Gray denied that investigation of physical causes stood opposed to the theological view and the study of the harmonies between mind and Nature, and thought it " most presumable that an intellectual conception realized in Nature would be realized through natural agencies ".. Thomas Huxley, who strongly promoted Darwin's ideas while campaigning to end the dominance of science by the clergy, coined the term agnostic to describe his position that God's existence is unknowable, and Darwin also took this position, but evolution was also taken up by prominent atheists including Edward Aveling and Ludwig Büchner and it was criticised, in the words of one reviewer, as " tantamount to atheism ".

The term Darwinism had covered a wide range of ideas, many of which differed from Darwin's views, but it became associated with the minority view of August Weismann who went further than Darwin by rejecting inheritance of acquired characters and attributing all evolution to natural selection, a view also called neo-Darwinism.

Though contrary to Darwin's view, Weismann's belief that determinants shape the body, and never vice versa, has long been known as the central dogma of modern biology.

Though Behe has avoided committing himself to the view that God intervenes directly in nature to create purportedly irreducibly complex structures, Darwin's Black Box briefly speculates that divine intervention might have caused the direct creation of a cell from which all of life evolved, supporting creationist views of miraculous acts of creation, but ironically echoing Darwin's stated " view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

In this text, as in his others, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism could fully accept an evolutionary view of biological systems, as long as this view was not centered around Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Darwin's notebooks developed an essentially materialist and deterministic view of human beings, with the conclusions that freewill was an illusion and the brain was mechanistic.

His view was that competition was between groups, leading " to the inevitable extinction of all those low and mentally undeveloped populations with which the Europeans come into contact ", Darwin's experience supported this and he wrote on his copy " natural selection is now acting on the inferior races when put into competition ", giving the example of Māoris in New Zealand " dying out like their own native rat ".

( This is an interesting opinion in view of Bowlby's diagnostic conjecture that most of the symptoms of Darwin's long term illness arose from an anxiety-related hyperventilation syndrome originating in his bereavement following the death of his mother in 1817 ).

With the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution in 1859, the concept of a " natural system " of taxonomy gained a theoretical basis, and the idea was born that groups used in a system of classification should represent branches on the evolutionary tree of life.

Darwin's House in Lichfield, now a museum dedicated to his life and work.

Agassiz is remembered today for his theories on ice ages, and for his resistance to Charles Darwin's theories on evolution, which he kept up his entire life.

With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, now the unifying concept of the life sciences.

David Quammen has suggested all these factors may have contributed, and notes Darwin's large output of books and busy family life during that time.

The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, and it was through the popularization of Charles Darwin's work that he first became known to the public.

* Darwin's ocean's life

Darwin's theory of evolution was the cutting edge of science during Dharmapala's life.

Herbert Spencer first used the phrase – after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species – in his Principles of Biology ( 1864 ), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones, writing, " This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called ' natural selection ', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Herbert Spencer first used the phrase — after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species — in his Principles of Biology of 1864 in which he drew parallels between his economic theories and Darwin's biological, evolutionary ones, writing, “ This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called ' natural selection ', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Emma preferred a more expensive house in Surrey, and may have hoped that Darwin's father would increase the loan, but life in crowded dirty London was becoming more unpleasant and she was pregnant so unable to continue the search that year.

Bell's studies on emotional expression, flawed though they were, played a catalytic role in the development of Darwin's considerations of the origins of human emotional life ; and Darwin very much agreed with Bell's emphasis on the expressive role of the muscles of respiration.

This event was attended by Scott Thomson ( the researcher on Harriet's history ), three generations of the Fleay family, Robin Stewart ( author of Darwin's Tortoise ), and many hundreds of others who knew this tortoise during the latter part of her life.

The celebration of Darwin's work and tributes to his life have been organized sporadically since his death on April 19, 1882, at age 73.

Before Darwin's argument and presentation of the evidence for evolution, Western religions generally discounted or condemned any claims that diversity of life is the result of an evolutionary process, as did most scientists in the English scientific establishment.

Here Nietzsche criticizes Darwin, as he frequently does, as naive and derivative of Hobbes and early English economists and without an account of life from the " inside " ( and consider in this light Darwin's own introduction to the first edition of Origin ) ( consider also Nietzsche's critique to the effect that Darwinism, as typically understood, is trading in a new version of the Providential ):

* " Darwin's Brave New World ", a three-part documentary on the life of Charles Darwin as he wrote The Origin of Species, 1 November 2009

Stan Guffey, a biologist at the University of Tennessee, has alleged that most of Comfort's section on Darwin's life was plagiarised from his work.

Although Darwin's work rejected " the dogma of separate creations ," he invoked creation as the probable source of the first lifeforms (" into which life was first breathed ").

This led Asa Gray, who was both religiously orthodox, and Darwin's most prominent American supporter, to suggest that Darwin had accepted " a supernatural beginning of life on earth " and that he should therefore allow a second " special origination " for humanity.

Wallace throughout his life continued to support and extend the scope of Darwin's theory of evolution via the mechanism of natural selection.