Four of the National Portrait Gallery paintings are currently ( December 1997 ) on display: John Burns, Sir William Huggins, Thomas Huxley ( the artist's father in law ) and Charles Darwin ( copies of the last two are also prominently displayed at the top of the staircase at the Athenaeum Club in London ).

Presenters currently working on the station: Gregg Upwards, Mark Darwin, Pat Sharp, Ben Atkinson, Joe Lemer, Tony James ( AJ ), Damian Pickett plus former BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Presenter Mike Read.

Amongst other things he is currently a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, chair of the Darwin Advisory Committee, Chair of Natural England ’ s Science Advisory Committee and board member, a Trustee of Earthwatch Europe and WWF-UK, and council member of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

In January 2006, Central GTS / BKN was renamed Southern Cross GTS / BKN, changing its logo to the same one currently used by Southern Cross Tasmania and Southern Cross Darwin.

After a record road toll of 75 in the year 2008, there are currently 8 members in the Darwin region responsible for traffic enforcement, major crash investigation, special events, traffic campaigns, escort duties and general duties taskings as required.

Frans W. Saris, former director of ECN Petten, and currently professor of physics and dean of mathematics and natural Sciences at the University of Leiden published in November his book " Darwin meets Einstein ".

He is currently developing space missions to detect the atmospheres of Earth-like extrasolar planets, such as the European Space Agency's Darwin Mission, and the Japanese Space Agency's AKARI mission, which was successfully launched in February 2006, and the Herschel Space Observatory.

He was a member of the Darwin – Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.

* 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

The list of entomologists through recorded history is enormous, and includes such notable figures as Charles Darwin, Jean-Henri Fabre, Vladimir Nabokov, Karl von Frisch ( winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ,) and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner E. O. Wilson.

Darwin studied evolution in the context of Charles Lyell's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some critical advances made during the last half-century.

) DNA Changing Science and Society: The Darwin Lectures for 2003 CUP 2003, includes a lecture by Sir Aaron Klug on Rosalind Franklin's involvement in the determination of the structure of DNA.

FitzRoy's account includes Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he recanted his earlier interest in the geological writings of Charles Lyell and his remarks to a Darwin during the expedition that sedimentary features they saw " could never have been effected by a forty days ' flood ", asserting his renewed commitment to a literal reading of the Bible.

In northern Australia ( which includes the northernmost parts of the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland ) the Saltwater Crocodile is thriving, particularly in the multiple river systems near Darwin ( such as the Adelaide, Mary and Daly Rivers, along with their adjacent billabongs and estuaries ) where large ( 6 metre +) individuals are not uncommon.

This electorate includes all of the towns and communities in the Northern Territory outside Darwin, as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The collection includes copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the letter which Charles Darwin submitted with the manuscript of Origin of Species, the First Folio of Shakespeare and numerous journals and other publications.

This list includes destinations served by franchisees and subsidiaries Contact Air, Darwin Airline, Helvetic Airways and Swiss European Air Lines:

In examining this aspect, excluded ab initio by Darwin, Wallace came to the conclusion that Life itself cannot be understood except by means of a theory that includes " an organising and directive Life-Principle.

" Darwin on Trial includes Johnson's examination of evidence and arguments about natural selection, genetic mutation, the fossil record, prebiological evolution and molecular biology.

As of April 2011, the Darwin Airline fleet includes:

The group includes University of Wollongong, Charles Darwin University, Flinders University, Griffith University, James Cook University, La Trobe University, Murdoch University and University of Newcastle.

Each regional office includes a Regional Forecasting Centre and a Flood Warning Centre, and the Perth, Darwin and Brisbane offices also house Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres.

It is most well known for its distinctive concrete facade, its collection which includes two windows from Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House, and more than 35, 000 other works in the permanent collection.

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.

Later, Darwin became a close personal friend, and Lyell was one of the first scientists to support On the Origin of Species, though he did not subscribe to all its contents.

Although Charles Darwin accepted Haeckel's support for natural selection, he was tentative in using Haeckel's ideas in his writings ; with regard to embryology, Darwin relied far more on von Baer's work.

Darwin concluded: " Finally, then, the facts briefly given in this chapter do not seem to me opposed to, but even rather to support the view, that there is no fundamental distinction between species and varieties.

Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin.

Darwin describes how natural variations in individual plants and animals also support the selection of new traits.

Nevertheless, Push associates regularly assisted in organising and turning out for street demonstrations, e. g., against South African apartheid and in support of victims of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre ; against the initial refusal of immigration minister Alexander Downer, Sr. to grant political asylum to three Portuguese merchant seamen who jumped ship in Darwin ; and against Australia's participation in the Vietnam War.

Selective breeding was used by Darwin as a springboard to introduce the theory of natural selection, and to support it.

Beebe was eager to undertake an expedition to the Galápagos Islands, with the intention of obtaining more detailed data in support of evolution than Charles Darwin had been able to collect in his earlier visit.

In 1851 he retired from active service, partly due to ill health, and in that year was elected to the Royal Society with the support of 13 fellows including Charles Darwin.

* First International Congress of Eugenics held in London with the support of Leonard Darwin, Winston Churchill, Auguste Forel, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Davenport and other prominent scientists.

During the 1860s, he published many articles in which he used archaeological evidence to support Darwin ’ s theory.

Both Darwin and Huxley declined to support his application, on the grounds that his interests and publications were too narrowly focussed on ornithology.

They attacked and wrecked the port at Darwin in northern Australia which rendered it useless as a supply and naval base to support operations in the East Indies.

However these ideas predate and commonly contradict Darwin's ideas, and indeed their proponents rarely invoked Darwin in support, while commonly claiming justification from religion and Horatio Alger mythology.

Erasmus Darwin reached an understanding with his close friend Josiah Wedgwood that his son Robert would marry Wedgwood's favourite daughter, Susannah, when able to support her.

Mallet, with letters of support from Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, petitioned the Royal Society of London and received a grant of £ 150 to go to Padula and record at first hand the devastation.

Those opposing religion often took Darwin as their inspiration and expected his support for their cause, a role he firmly refused.

The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury, whose own income as a physician to the rich together with astute investment of his inherited wealth enabled him to fund his son Charles Darwin's place on the Voyage of the Beagle and then give him the private income needed to support Charles ' chosen vocation in natural history that led to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution.

They next rented a villa in Sandown and Darwin pressed on, with the facts he felt necessary to support his " abstract " expanding far beyond the thirty pages Hooker had originally suggested.

Charles Darwin mentions Vogt's support for the theory of evolution in the introduction to his The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( 1871 ).

There was intense interest in the religious implications of Darwin's book, but the Church of England's attention was largely diverted by theological controversy over higher criticism set out in Essays and Reviews by liberal Christian authors, some of whom expressed support for Darwin, as did many Nonconformists.