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.

While in South America Darwin received Volume 2 which considered the ideas of Lamarck in some detail.

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.

From Aristotle until Darwin, the natural world was predominantly considered static and unchanging.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described as analogous to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

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.

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

While Darwin considered Wallace's idea to be identical to his concept of natural selection, historians have pointed out differences.

In his work Über die Berechtigung der Darwin ' schen Theorie ( On the justification of the Darwinian theory ) he compares creationism and evolutionary theory, concluding that many biological facts can be seamlessly accommodated within evolutionary theory, but remain puzzling if considered the result of acts of creation.

The case was considered by Lamark, who thought flatfish precursors would have lived in shallow water for a long period, and by Darwin, who predicted a gradual migration of the eye, mirroring the metamorphosis of the living forms.

: There is nothing in modern philosophy that appears to me so extraordinary, as the revival of what has long been considered as the exploded doctrine of equivocal, or, as Dr. Darwin calls it, spontaneous generation ; by which is meant the production of organized bodies from substances that have no organization, as plants and animals from no pre-existing germs of the same kinds, plants without seeds, and animals without sexual intercourse.

It was considered one of the finest works of its kind at the time, being cited by Darwin.

Charles Darwin considered that conscience evolved in man to resolve conflicts between competing natural impulses-some about self-preservation but others about safety of a family or community ; the claim of conscience to moral authority emerged from the " greater duration of impression of social instincts " in the struggle for survival.

Darwin called his Lamarckian hypothesis Pangenesis, and explained it in the final chapter of his book Variation in Plants and Animals under Domestication, after describing numerous examples to demonstrate what he considered to be the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Charles Darwin studied de Candolle's " natural system " of classification in 1826 when at the University of Edinburgh, and in the inception of Darwin's theory in 1838 he considered " the warring of the species ", adding that it was even more strongly conveyed by Thomas Malthus, producing the pressures that Darwin later called natural selection.

Darwin held Gray in high esteem: he dedicated his book Forms of Flowers ( 1877 ) to Gray and he wrote in 1881 " there is hardly any one in the world whose approbation I value more highly than I do yours " Gray, considered by Darwin to be his friend and " best advocate ", also attempted to convince Darwin in these letters that design was inherent in all forms of life, and to return to his faith.

His reputation abroad was negative: Charles Darwin, for one, hoped he would be overthrown, though Thomas Carlyle, no friend to democracy, found material to admire even in the publications of Francia's detractors, and wrote in an 1843 essay that " Liberty of private judgement, unless it kept its mouth shut, was at an end in Paraguay ", but considered that under the social circumstances this was of little detriment to a " Gaucho population ... not yet fit for constitutional liberty.

Darwin focuses less on the question of whether humans evolved than he does on showing that each of the human faculties considered to be so far beyond those of animals — such as moral reasoning, sympathy for others, beauty, and music — can be seen in kind ( if not degree ) in other animal species ( usually apes and dogs ).

To the contrary, Darwin considered that all human beings were of the same species, and that races, if they were useful markers at all, were simply " sub-species " or " variants.

Darwin considered sexual selection to be as much of a theoretical contribution of his as was his natural selection, and a substantial amount of Descent is devoted exclusively to this topic.