( Linn was nominated for a Darwin Award, but did not win.

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 Lyell did not publicly accept evolution ( descent with modification ) at the time of writing the Principles, after the Darwin – Wallace papers and the Origin Lyell wrote in his notebook:

Smith, who preceded Charles Darwin, was unaware of biological evolution and did not know why faunal succession occurred.

While he did not originate the term, Charles Darwin identified the argument as a possible way to falsify a prediction of the theory of evolution at the outset.

Charles Lyell recognised the implications of Wallace's paper and its possible connection to Darwin's work, although Darwin did not, and in the spring of 1856 Lyell urged Darwin to publish his theory to establish priority.

Darwin did not expect to be able to reconstruct evolutionary history, but continuing discoveries gave him well founded hope that new finds would occasionally reveal transitional forms.

Darwin did not publish his own views on this until 1871.

Darwin objected to his ideas being used to justify military aggression and unethical business practices as he believed morality was part of fitness in humans, and he opposed polygenism, the idea that human races were fundamentally distinct and did not share a recent common ancestry.

For Darwin, the problem was how species arose from a common ancestor, but he did not attempt to find rules for delineation of species.

Only in later editions of his works did Darwin used the term " evolution.

Also, Darwin did not offer a precise explanation of how new species arise.

Weiner follows the career of two biologists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, who have spent twenty years proving that Charles Darwin did not know the full strength of his theory of evolution.

They did not, and Galton declared that he had disproved Darwin's hypothesis of Pangenesis, but Darwin objected, in a letter to Nature, that he had done nothing of the sort, since he had never mentioned blood in his writings.

He was " an enthusiastic exponent of evolution " and even " wrote about evolution before Darwin did.

Charles Darwin was familiar with the concept of vestigial structures, though the term for them did not yet exist.

Abraham Bennet was curate of Wirksworth in the 18th century and did important early work in electricity, in association with Erasmus Darwin.

Darwin held the opposite view, and did not read Blyth until after formulating his own theory.

Though Darwin's first book on evolution did not address the specific question of human evolution —" light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history ," was all Darwin wrote on the subject — the implications of evolutionary theory were clear to contemporary readers.

Darwin also argues that all civilizations had risen out of barbarism, and that he did not think that barbarism is a " fall from grace " as many commentators of his time had asserted.

Darwin notes that, as had been discussed by Alfred Russel Wallace and Galton, natural selection seemed to no longer act upon civilized communities in the way it did upon other animals:

" Darwin did feel that the " savage races " of man would be subverted by the " civilised races " at some point in the near future, as stated in the Human races section above.

" Creationists use the term Darwinism, often pejoratively, to imply that the theory has been held as true only by Darwin and a core group of his followers, whom they cast as dogmatic and inflexible in their belief.

Darwin stated that some changes that were commonly attributed to use and disuse, such as the loss of functional wings in some island dwelling insects, might be produced by natural selection.

Darwin had long been immersed in the literary forms and practices of specialist science, and made effective use of his skills in structuring arguments.

* October 2 – Charles Darwin returns to England aboard with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.

Its first recorded use in English was in 1625 as atollon-Charles Darwin recognized its indigenous origin and coined, in his The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, the definition of atolls as ".. circular groups of coral islets [...] and word is synonymous with ' lagoon-island '.

In the final chapter of his Evolution the modern synthesis he defines evolutionary progress as " a raising of the upper level of biological efficiency, this being defined as increased control over and independence of the environment ," Evolution in action discusses evolutionary progress at length: " Natural selection plus time produces biological improvement ... ' Improvement ' is not yet a recognised technical term in biology ... however, living things are improved during evolution ... Darwin was not afraid to use the word for the results of natural selection in general ...

While the Spanish names are official, many users ( especially ecological researchers ) continue to use the older English names, principally because those were the names used when Charles Darwin visited.

Some people including Cope and Darwin critic Samuel Butler felt that inheritance of acquired characteristics would let organisms shape their own evolution, since organisms that acquired new habits would change the use patterns of their organs, which would kick-start Lamarckian evolution.

" In the period prior to World War I the preferred English common name was humble bee, as found in On the Origin of Species ( 1859 ) by Charles Darwin ( see above in this article for a lengthy quotation ), though bumblebee was still in use as well, for example in The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse ( 1910 ) by Beatrix Potter, " Suddenly round a corner, she met Babbitty Bumble --" Zizz, Bizz, Bizzz!

All Digiboxes used to run on OpenTV ( the latest HD boxes now use what is known internally as Project Darwin software ) with Sky's EPG software and NDS VideoGuard conditional access.

In contrast Darwin argued that the wings of emus would be definitely vestigial, as they appear to have no major extant function ; however, function is a matter of degree, so judgements on what is a " major " function are arbitrary ; the emu does seem to use its wings as organs of balance in running.

In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin briefly mentioned inheritance of acquired characters under the heading " Effects of Use and Disuse ", expressing little doubt that use " strengthens and enlarges certain parts, and disuse diminishes them ; and that such modifications are inherited ".< ref > Darwin, 1859, pp. 134 – 139.

* October 2-Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.

* The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin, outlining his theory for man's origins and his theory of sexual selection, and including his first published use of the term evolution ( published by John Murray in London, February 24 ).

In On the Origin of Species, Darwin had admitted that to use natural selection to explain something as complicated as a human eye, " with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration " might at first appear " absurd in the highest possible degree ," but nevertheless, if " numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist ", then it seemed quite possible to account for within his theory.

As noted by Charles Darwin, because lianas are supported by other plants, they may conserve resources that other plants must allocate to the development of structure and use them instead for growth and reproduction.

The earliest use of these terms was apparently by Charles Darwin, in a letter to J. D. Hooker in 1857.

XNU is the computer operating system kernel that Apple Inc. acquired and developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as free and open source software as part of the Darwin operating system.

He supervised the third ( 1859 ) edition of Sir John Herschel's A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy and adapted for travellers in general ( 1849 ), which included an article on geology by Charles Darwin.

On representing this to Mr. Darwin, he gave us permission to make what use we thought proper of his memoir, & c .; and in adopting our present course, of presenting it to the Linnean Society, we have explained to him that we are not solely considering the relative claims to priority of himself and his friend, but the interests of science generally ".

Charles Darwin is an important example of someone who has contributed to science through the use of field trips.

Darwin would make good use of the homologies analyzed by Owen in his own theory, but the harsh treatment of Grant, along with the controversy surrounding Vestiges, would be factors in his decision to ensure that his theory was fully supported by facts and arguments before publishing his ideas.