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The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
When the Beagle made its first stop ashore at St Jago, Darwin found rock formations which seen " through Lyell's eyes " gave him a revolutionary insight into the geological history of the island, an insight he applied throughout his travels.
The Darwin Awards books state that an attempt is made to disallow known urban legends from the awards, but some older " winners " have been ' grandfathered ' to keep their awards.
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 Charles Darwin is mainly noted for his treatise on evolution, he was one of the founders of soil ecology, and he made note of the first ecological experiment in The Origin of Species.
From 1866 to 1867, Haeckel made an extended journey to the Canary Islands with Hermann Fol and during this period, met with Charles Darwin, in 1866 at Down House in Kent, Thomas Huxley and Charles Lyell.
Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).
He was born in a Smålandian village and under the early teens a farmer, but science, with its celebrities such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein made such an impression on him, as to motivate him to accomplish college studies by letter correspondence.
Darwin had told Murray of working men in Lancashire clubbing together to buy the 5th edition at fifteen shillings and wanted it made more widely available ; the price was halved to 7s 6d by printing in a smaller font.
Darwin and Wallace made variation among individuals of the same species central to understanding the natural world.
Darwin had long been immersed in the literary forms and practices of specialist science, and made effective use of his skills in structuring arguments.
In response, Darwin made considerable changes to the sixth edition.
They returned to Tierra del Fuego in the Beagle with FitzRoy and Charles Darwin, who made extensive notes about his visit to the islands.
In 1842 Darwin explained the creation of coral atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean based upon observations made during a five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836.
She was also able to take advantage of a number of gaffes made by Chief Minister Denis Burke, such as the decision to preference the One Nation Party over the ALP-which lost the CLP a number of votes in crucial Darwin seats.
In 1898, George Darwin made the suggestion that the Earth and Moon had once been one body.
Experimental ports of the FLASK / TE implementation have been made available via the TrustedBSD Project for the FreeBSD and Darwin operating systems.
And it sets you thinking what difference, if any, it would have made if Jesus Christ, or Karl Marx or Charles Darwin had never been.
The reference to Charles Darwin is in honor of his contention made in On the Origin of Species ( 1859 ) that
Captain Cook made his way to Darwin, where he sent armed horsemen to hunt down the Aborigines in the Victoria River country, founding the city of Darwin and giving police plus cattle station managers orders on how to treat Aborigines.
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.
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.
However, the Demons made a comeback when they narrowly defeated Port Adelaide by one point, at a home game in Darwin.

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The park has extensive fire trails suitable for bush walking, as well as a mountain bike trail maintained by the Darwin Off-Road Cyclists Club.
He had extensive correspondence with Charles Darwin, who lived nearby in Down House.
Darwin made extensive alterations to the house and grounds.
The surviving three returned to Tierra del Fuego with the Beagle with Charles Darwin, who made extensive notes about his visit to the islands.
However, there is no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had read the book, and the fact that he sent out for a copy after Matthew's complaint strongly suggests that he did not have a copy in his extensive library.
Darwin carried out an unusually extensive and remarkable correspondence with James Crichton-Browne, the superintendent of the Wakefield asylum.
In his conclusions, Darwin presents the key features of plants from an evolutionary perspective indicating that gradual modification of these processes in response to natural selective forces like light and water could enable extensive ability to adapt.
In December Darwin completed extensive revisions of the Origin, using the word " evolution " for the first time and adding a new chapter to refute Mivart's guided jumps, tackling the argument of uselessness of part-evolved organs with myriad examples of gradual development or organs changing function.
In addition, ASQ has an extensive regional touring programme throughout Australia ( from small mining towns, to the Northern territory's capital, Darwin ) and appears at major international festivals in Adelaide, Sydney, and Austria.

Darwin and revisions
It did not contain several revisions wanted by Darwin, which were not published until the third edition of 1999 ( edited by Paul Ekman ).

Darwin and sixth
Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.
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 prepared a point-by-point refutation which appeared in the sixth edition of Origin of Species.
Charles Waring Darwin, who died when he was 18 months old ( 6 December 1856 – 28 June 1858 ), was the last of the children of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin, their tenth child and sixth son.
Hearne is mentioned by Charles Darwin in the sixth chapter of The Origin of Species:
Holby City is set between the hospital's Acute Assessment Unit ( ground floor ), and Keller ( third floor ) and Darwin ( sixth floor ) wards, providing General and Cardiothoracic surgical care respectively.

Darwin and edition
All three went through multiple editions during his lifetime, although many of his friends ( such as Darwin ) thought the first edition of the Principles was the best written.
Lyell asked Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, to search for erratic boulders on the survey voyage of the Beagle, and just before it set out FitzRoy gave Darwin Volume 1 of the first edition of Lyell's Principles.
He encouraged Darwin to publish, and following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, Lyell finally offered a tepid endorsement of evolution in the tenth edition of Principles.
In the fourth edition ( 1866 ) of On the Origin of Species Darwin wrote that " the periods during which species have undergone modification, though long as measured in years, have probably been short in comparison with the periods during which they retain the same form.
( eventually Murray paid £ 180 to Darwin for the 1st edition and by Darwin's death in 1882 the book was in its 6th edition, earning Darwin nearly £ 3000.
Darwin corresponded with Royer about a second edition published in 1866 and a third in 1870, but he had difficulty getting her to remove her notes and was troubled by these editions.
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.
Starting with the third edition, Darwin prefaced the introduction with a sketch of the historical development of evolutionary ideas.
In Chapter III, Darwin asks how varieties " which I have called incipient species " become distinct species, and in answer introduces the key concept he calls " natural selection "; in the fifth edition he adds, " But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Quammen advised that later editions were weakened by Darwin making concessions and adding details to address his critics, and recommended the first edition.
Darwin tried to meet these objections in the 5th edition.
In the second edition of January 1860, Darwin quoted Kingsley as " a celebrated cleric ", and added the phrase " by the Creator " to the closing sentence, which from then on read " life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ".
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 ".
Darwin used the term twice in the 1859 first edition of his work On the Origin of Species, in Chapter IV: Natural Selection, and in Chapter VI: Difficulties on Theory –
In his first ( 1859 ) edition of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin wrote of " humble-bees " ( a now-disused term for bumblebees ; see the etymology section below in this article for more information ) and their interactions with other species:

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