After discussing classification issues, Darwin concludes:

The final chapter reviews points from earlier chapters, and Darwin concludes by hoping that his theory might produce revolutionary changes in many fields of natural history.

Scott lists a series of examples demonstrating that " clearly does not understand the meanings scientists give to many of their terms deliberately conflates pairs of ideas that properly are separate ", then concludes " Darwin on Trial deserves to be read by scientists, not for its scientific value which is negligible, but for its potential social and political impact.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

" Darwin was equally haughty in return, condescending that " If Mr. F bows to Mrs D. and myself, we will return it ".

Darwin received it on 18 June 1858, and wrote to Lyell that " your words have come true with a vengeance ,... forestalled " and " If Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract!

Clark continues: " If Darwin had any previous knowledge of Arboriculture, it had slipped down into the unconscious ".

If Müller had a weakness it was that his writing was much less readable than that of Darwin or Wallace ; both the German and English editions are hard reading indeed, which has limited the appreciation of this significant book.

" Darwin did tell Emma of his ideas at that stage, and, while she was deeply concerned about the danger to his afterlife expressed in the Gospel, " If a man abide not in me ... they are burned ", she married him and remained fully supportive of his work throughout their marriage.

If Genesis could be shown to have anticipated Darwin or Einstein, then the Bible would regain an aura of truth that it had been losing since the advent of biblical criticism and modern science.

" Darwin was equally haughty in return, condescending that " If Mr. F bows to Mrs D. and myself, we will return it ".

If Probe Balboa's entry into Darwin IV atmosphere is watched carefully, it can be seen that the right tail fin does not extend and lock into place.

But when Lyell wrote that it remained a profound mystery how the huge gulf between man and beast could be bridged, Darwin wrote " Oh!

Neither Charles Darwin nor anyone else in his time knew the answer to the species problem: how multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor.

In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

Nothing could be further from my intention, and few things would be more distasteful to me than any attempt to laugh at Mr. Darwin ....

Darwin emphasized that only cells could regenerate new tissues or generate new organisms.

In the second edition, Darwin added an epigraph from Joseph Butler affirming that God could work through scientific laws as much as through miracles, in a nod to the religious concerns of his oldest friends.

In the sixth edition Darwin inserted a new chapter VII ( renumbering the subsequent chapters ) to respond to criticisms of earlier editions, including the objection that many features of organisms were not adaptive and could not have been produced by natural selection.

Darwin borrowed Charles Lyell's argument in Principles of Geology that the record is extremely imperfect as fossilisation is a very rare occurrence, spread over vast periods of time ; since few areas had been geologically explored, there could only be fragmentary knowledge of geological formations, and fossil collections were very poor.

Darwin discussed ways that species could be dispersed across oceans to colonise islands, many of which he had investigated experimentally.

Darwin presents supporting facts drawn from many disciplines, showing that his theory could explain a myriad of observations from many fields of natural history that were inexplicable under the alternate concept that species had been individually created.

Despite this, Huxley strongly supported Darwin on evolution ; though he called for experiments to show whether natural selection could form new species, and questioned if Darwin's gradualism was sufficient without sudden leaps to cause speciation.

Darwin conceded that these could be linked to adaptive characteristics.

Darwin accepted blending inheritance, but Fleeming Jenkin calculated that as it mixed traits, natural selection could not accumulate useful traits.

He could drive straight and sometimes putt well but, for reasons that Darwin could not understand, " he never could play an iron shot well ".

Darwin's long-time critic St. George Mivart thought that the intermediate stages could have no selective value, and in the 6th edition of the Origin, Darwin made a concession to the possibility of acquired traits.

With 17 P-40s delivered by the Pensacola convoy ( assembly of the 18th could not be completed because of a lack of parts ), it flew across northern Australia from Brisbane to Darwin, then to Java via Penfoie Airdrome at Koepang and Den Pasar Field on Bali between 16 and 25 January.

At approximately the same time, Charles Darwin developed a general framework for comprehending any process whereby small, random variations could accumulate and predominate over time into large-scale changes that resulted in the emergence of wholly novel forms (" speciation ").

General Brereton therefore requested authority on December 15 to move the B-17s to Darwin in northwest Australia, 1, 500 miles away, where they could be based safely and serviced properly.

These pangenes were microscopic particles that supposedly contained information about the characteristics of their parent cell, and Darwin believed that they eventually accumulated in the germ cells where they could pass on to the next generation the newly acquired characteristics of the parents.

Darwin incautiously asked FitzRoy if he thought slaves could answer such a question honestly when it was posed by their master, at which the captain lost his temper and, before storming out, told Darwin that if he doubted his word they could no longer live together ; effectively he banished Darwin from his table.

In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching.

Yet disgust can often be a learned or cultural issue too ; as Darwin pointed out, seeing a stripe of soup in a man's beard is disgusting even though neither soup nor beards are themselves disgusting.

The city's former mayor, Darwin Hindman, is largely in favor of a non-motorized transportation system, and can often be seen riding his bicycle around the city.

: May 3, 1860: " Mr. Darwin has written a work which will constitute an era in geology & natural history to show that ... the descendants of common parents may become in the course of ages so unlike each other as to be entitled to rank as a distinct species, from each other or from some of their progenitors ".

The origin of the Darwin Awards can be traced back to posts on Usenet group discussions as early as 1985.

In addition, later revisions to the qualification criteria add several requirements that have not been made into formalized ' rules ': innocent bystanders cannot be in danger, and the qualifying event must be caused without deliberate intent ( to prevent glory-seekers from purposely injuring themselves solely to win a Darwin ).

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

George III invited him to be Royal Physician, but Darwin declined.

When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540 million years old.

Using uniformitarianism, which states that one cannot make an appeal to any force or phenomenon which cannot presently be observed ( see catastrophism ), Darwin theorized that the evolutionary process must occur gradually, not in saltations, since saltations are not presently observed, and extreme deviations from the usual phenotypic variation would be more likely to be selected against.

Charles Darwin showed that traits must be inherited before evolution can occur.

It is correct to say that a set of simultaneous mutations that form a complex protein structure is so unlikely as to be unfeasible, but that is not what Darwin advocated.

In 1999, his Australian tour was cut short when he had to be hospitalized in Darwin with viral meningitis.

The term " natural selection " was popularized by Charles Darwin who intended it to be compared with artificial selection, what we now call selective breeding.

Darwin himself had noted that " the existence of free gemmules is a gratuitous assumption "; by some accounts in modern interpretation, gemmules may be considered a prescient mix of DNA, RNA, proteins, prions, and other mobile elements that are heritable in a non-Mendelian manner at the molecular level.

Charles Darwin is considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all time.

Though the finches were less important for Darwin, more recent research has shown the birds now known as Darwin's finches to be a classic case of adaptive evolutionary radiation.