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.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

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.

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

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

The idea of non-biological self-replicating systems was introduced in Samuel Butler's article " Darwin Among the Machines " published only a few years after The Origin of Species.

The episode was reported by Darwin in his diaries of the Voyage of the Beagle as occurring in March 1835 to the east of the Andes near Mendoza.

Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.

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's interpretation of geologic change as the steady accumulation of minute changes over enormously long spans of time was a powerful influence on the young Charles Darwin.

In geology Darwin was very much Lyell's disciple, and brought back observations and his own original theorising, including ideas about the formation of atolls, which supported Lyell's uniformitarianism.

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.

The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911.

It was the same fleet that had bombed Pearl Harbor, though a considerably larger number of bombs were dropped on Darwin than on Pearl Harbor.

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.

In 2006, a comedy film, The Darwin Awards, was written and directed by Finn Taylor, that was based on the website and many of the Darwin Awards stories.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

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

Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

Perth receives moderate though highly seasonal rainfall, making it the fourth wettest Australian capital city after Darwin, Sydney and Brisbane.

Under the superior leadership of Darwin Smith as CEO from 1971 to 1991, company went from being a mediocre business paper company to a highly successful consumer paper products company.

Dionaea muscipula, better known as the Venus fly trap, is a globally famous carnivorous plant and according to Charles Darwin, “ one of the most wonderful in the world .” The leaves of Dionaea are also highly modified and form a “ snap-trap ” that quickly shuts when a stimulus is detected.

The Lunar Society included industrialists such as Samuel Galton, Jr. as well as intellectuals such as Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Priestley ; scientific lecturers such as John Warltire and Adam Walker communicated basic Newtonian principles widely to the town's manufacturing classes ; and men such as Matthew Boulton, James Keir, James Watt and John Roebuck were simultaneously highly regarded both as scientists and as technologists, and in some cases also as businessmen.

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.

Most savanna in Australia is used for grazing livestock, but in this far north, vast areas of grassland are in their original state and dotted with Darwin stringybark and Darwin woollybutt eucalyptus trees ; these grasslands are a unique and highly important ecoregion.

By the time Darwin published his own book on the subject, Descent of Man, it was already a well-known interpretation of his theory — and the interpretation which made the theory highly controversial.

More difficult for Darwin were highly evolved and complicated features that conveyed apparently no adaptive advantage to the organism.

So highly did Mr. Darwin appreciate the value of the views therein set forth, that he proposed, in a letter to Sir Charles Lyell, to obtain Mr. Wallace's consent to allow the Essay to be published as soon as possible.

Of this step we highly approved, provided Mr. Darwin did not withhold from the public, as he was strongly inclined to do ( in favour of Mr. Wallace ), the memoir which he had himself written on the same subject, and which, as before stated, one of us had perused in 1844, and the contents of which we had both of us been privy to for many years.

Recently, hardcore has seen a growing abundance of digital labels, and amongst them, upcoming artists such as the highly acclaimed Fracus and Darwin.

Dr. Clark in London prescribed a " dry diet " which helped, and refused to charge his patient so Darwin sent £ 100 towards the development of a fungus-proof potato by a " highly respectable " Belfast breeder.

In 1991, Ottawa businessman and then Ottawa 67's owner Howard Darwin was successful in applying to the IL for an expansion franchise to begin play in 1993, at a cost of $ 5 million.

Charles Darwin discussed how selective breeding had been successful in producing change over time in his book, Origin of Species.

The British naturalist Charles Darwin, combining the biogeographical approach of Humboldt, the uniformitarian geology of Lyell, Thomas Malthus's writings on population growth, and his own morphological expertise, created a more successful evolutionary theory based on natural selection ; similar evidence led Alfred Russel Wallace to independently reach the same conclusions.

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His other successful expeditions include Laila Peak and Nemeka in Pakistan and several expeditions to the Cordillera Darwin in Chile.

Capt Charles Tindal-Carill-Worsley, RN, ( d1920 ) a great grandson of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, was a successful naval officer in the First World War.

A successful trading post was to stop the drift of aboriginal people leaving their homelands and moving to Darwin, it's success would make Maningrida independent and not having to rely on Welfare.

Thorndike ’ s Law of Effect can be compared to Darwin ’ s theory of natural selection in which successful organisms are more likely to prosper and survive to pass on their genes to the next generation, while the weaker, unsuccessful organisms are gradually replaced and “ stamped out ”.

Darwin wrote in January, " I never dreamed of my Book being so successful with general readers: I believe I sh < sup > d </ sup >.

This journey was successful, reaching the north coast near modern Darwin on 24 July 1862.

Their successful joint bid used a company called Darwin Digital Television.

One of his grandfathers, Erasmus Darwin, was a successful physician, and was followed in this by his sons Charles Darwin, who died while still a promising medical student at the University of Edinburgh in 1778, and Doctor Robert Darwin, Darwin's father, who named his son after his deceased brother.

In the summer of 1829 he gave up medicine as his father Doctor Robert Waring Darwin considered that Erasmus's " delicate frame " could not withstand a career " involving, if successful, a severe strain on body & mind " and decided to pension him off.