Many of the proponents of Darwinism at that time, including Huxley, had reservations about the significance of natural selection, and Darwin himself gave credence to what was later called Lamarckism.

It may also refer specifically to the role of Charles Darwin as opposed to others in the history of evolutionary thought — particularly contrasting Darwin's results with those of earlier theories such as Lamarckism or later ones such as the modern synthesis.

* the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant ( and later, Charles Darwin ), which increased doubt about the first cause argument and the argument from design, turning many ( though not all ) potential deists towards atheism instead

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 ).

This led to Darwin adopting some Lamarckian ideas in later editions of On the Origin of Species and his later biological works.

The thermoregulatory hypothesis ( first proposed by Darwin in 1871 and later developed by Dr. Peter Wheeler, 1984, 1985 ) suggests that a need for decreased body hair originated as a response to climate change that began approximately 3 million years ago.

As a result of the close association that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, Josiah's eldest daughter would later marry Erasmus ' son.

Charles Darwin quoted Audubon three times in On the Origin of Species and also in later works.

The primordialist evolutionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides.

of Biomechanics at the USSR Central Institute of Physical Culture, and later associated with Moscow's Darwin Museum.

In his later work, The Descent of Man, Darwin elaborated further on the model.

, others are held at the Fitzwilliam Museum ( this is the copy sent by Wedgwood to Erasmus Darwin which his descendants loaned to the Museum in 1963 and later sold to them ); the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Department of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum.

In later editions of the book, Darwin traced evolutionary ideas as far back as Aristotle ; the text he cites is a summary by Aristotle of the ideas of the earlier Greek philosopher Empedocles.

Darwin had his basic theory of natural selection " by which to work " by December 1838, yet almost twenty years later, when Wallace's letter arrived on 18 June 1858, Darwin was still not ready to publish his theory.

In later editions of Origin, Darwin expanded the role attributed to the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Quammen advised that later editions were weakened by Darwin making concessions and adding details to address his critics, and recommended the first edition.

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 ".

In addition to Moral and Political Philosophy and the Evidences Charles Darwin read Natural Theology during his student years and later stated in his autobiography that he was initially convinced by the argument.

* May 11, 1820 – The HMS Beagle ( the ship that later takes young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage ) is launched.

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

* May 11 – ( the ship that will later take young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage ) is launched at Woolwich Dockyard.

* In 1993, " Plugger " Bowden took the record with a Mack SuperLiner pulling 16 trailers, but a few months later this effort was surpassed by Darwin driver Malcolm Chisholm with a, 21 trailer rig extending.

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

Charles Darwin represented a widespread preference for a biological interpretation of such statements when he commented on the above lines thus: " The Grecian poet, Theognis ... saw how important selection, if carefully applied, would be for the improvement of mankind.

" This was incorrect: an 1832 letter written by Darwin commented that William Sharp Macleay " never imagined such an inosculating creature ".

Male lactation was of some interest to Alexander von Humboldt, who reports in Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent of a citizen of the village Arenas ( close to Cumana ) who allegedly nurtured his son for three months when his wife was ill, as well as Charles Darwin, who commented on it in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( 1871 ):

Writing to colleague Asa Gray in 1860, Darwin commented that he remembered well a " time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, & now small trifling particulars of structure often make me very uncomfortable.

On the 15 March 1833, an unimpressed Darwin commented that

Charles Darwin did not mention Monboddo, but commented on Buffon: " the first author who in modern times has treated in a scientific spirit was Buffon ".

On reading this, Darwin commented in a letter to Charles Lyell:

Notwithstanding Darwin's insistence on his ignorance of Matthew's work, Ronald W. Clark, a biographer of Darwin, commented that " Only the transparent honesty of Darwin's character ... makes it possible to believe that by the 1850s he had no recollection of Matthew's work ".

Dawkins further commented that it was an argument Darwin himself had anticipated, and that the example of a bacterial flagellum used by Behe had in fact been refuted by Kenneth R. Miller in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

In July 1857, Darwin commented to Hooker, " Owen's is a grand Paper ; but I cannot swallow Man making a division as distinct from a Chimpanzee, as an ornithorhynchus from a Horse: I wonder what a Chimpanzee wd.

After reading the pamphlet, Darwin commented " excellent observations of sickly offspring being cut off so that not propagated by nature ".

When Richard Owen was found to be involved, possibly trying to bring Kew under his British Museum, Darwin commented that " I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last days of my life ".

Emma Darwin broke the news to Charles, who commented that he had seen Erasmus dying slowly " for many years ", not " a happy man " but always kindhearted, clearheaded and affectionate.

In 1834 on his second visit Charles Darwin commented that:

In his autobiography, Darwin wrote that " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered ".

The scientist Joseph Le Conte stated in his autobiography that Cheves, long before Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, had articulated to him a theory of evolution almost identical to Darwin's.

It is sometimes suggested that Charles Darwin found himself on the receiving end of a bombardier beetle's defences on a collecting trip in 1828, but this is based on a misreading of his autobiography ;

Darwin recalled in his autobiography " No poet ever felt more delight at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing in Stephen's Illustrations of British Insects the magic words, ' captured by C. Darwin, Esq.

In his later private autobiography, Darwin wrote of the period from October 1836 to January 1839:

In his autobiography written in 1876 Darwin reviewed questions about Christianity in relation to other religions and how " the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become ".

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death.

In his autobiography of 1876, Darwin wrote of his illness, emphasising that it was brought on by " excitement ":

As well as writing out his own autobiography for his family, he wrote an introduction to a biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin.

Charles Darwin, from his autobiography.