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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.
When Edward Pole died, Darwin married Elizabeth and moved to her home, Radbourne Hall, four miles ( 6 km ) west of Derby.
When Charles Darwin went to the Galapagos Islands, he was well aware of Lamarck's theories and was influenced by them.
When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540 million years old.
When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859, one of its major problems was the lack of an underlying mechanism for heredity.
When presenting his ideas against the prevailing influences of catastrophism and progressive creationism, which envisaged species being supernaturally created at intervals, Darwin needed to forcefully stress the gradual nature of evolution in accordance with the gradualism promoted by his friend Charles Lyell.
When HMS Beagle called at Cape Town, Captain Robert FitzRoy and the young naturalist Charles Darwin visited Herschel on 3 June 1836.
When 14 surviving B-17 Flying Fortresses and 143 personnel of the heavy bombardment force were withdrawn from Mindanao to Darwin, Australia in the third week of December 1941, Headquarters FEAF followed it within days.
When the survey voyage of HMS Beagle visited the Galápagos Islands in September to October 1835, the naturalist Charles Darwin noticed that the mockingbirds Mimus thenca differed from island to island, and were closely allied in appearance to mockingbirds on the South American mainland.
When this came to light, in order to prevent his wife and daughter living in destitution, his friend and colleague Bartholomew Sulivan began an Admiral FitzRoy Testimonial Fund which succeeded in getting the government to pay back £ 3, 000 of this sum ( Darwin contributed a further £ 100 ).
When Darwin died in 1882, Lubbock suggested the honour of burial in Westminster Abbey, organising a letter to the dean to arrange this, and was one of the pallbearers.
When this urban legend was debunked, it was specifically pointed out that the mentioned Darwin Awards were fictitious.
When Charles Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Geological Society of London at their meeting on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification.
When Charles Darwin visited the islands in 1833 he found the species present on both West and East Falkland, and tame.
When organising his notes on the last stage of the Beagle expedition, Darwin wrote of his growing suspicions that the differences between the various Galápagos Islands mockingbirds and tortoises, as well as the possible dissimilarity of West Falkland and East Falkland Islands Wolf, were but variants that differed depending on which island they came from:
When writing The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication in 1866, Darwin intended to include a chapter including man in his theory, but the book became too big and he decided to write a separate " short essay " on ape ancestry, sexual selection and human expression, which became The Descent of Man.
When making his case that human races were all closely related and that the apparent gap between humans and other animals was due to closely related forms being extinct, Darwin drew on his experiences on the voyage showing that " savages " were being wiped out by " civilized " peoples.
When Darwin referred to " civilised races " he was almost always describing European cultures, and apparently drew no clear distinction between biological races and cultural races in humans.
When her father went to collect them he was accompanied by Caroline Darwin and also took Charles Darwin as far as Paris, where they all met up again before returning home in July 1827.
When Darwin returned from his voyage, Grant was one of those to offer to examine his specimens, but was turned down: they do not seem to have had further contact.
When Brodie Innes sent on a sermon by E. B. Pusey, Darwin responded that he could " hardly see how religion & science can be kept as distinct as he desires, as geology has to treat of the history of the Earth & Biology that of man .— But I most wholly agree with you that there is no reason why the disciples of either school should attack each other with bitterness, though each upholding strictly their beliefs.
" When they responded that they " did not commit the folly of god-denial, avoided with equal care the folly of god-assertion ", Darwin gave a thoughtful response, concluding that " I am with you in thought, but I should prefer the word Agnostic to the word Atheist.

When and received
When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.
When the Congo received its independence in 1960 there were, among its 13.5 million people, exactly 14 university graduates.
When peace was made with Henry in 1142, Albert renounced the Saxon duchy and received the Counties of Weimar and Orlamünde.
( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.
When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.
When he received the crown, his hold on it was in danger, as even his neighbours did not recognise his title and instead called him " king of Kraków ".
When the New York run for Butterflies Are Free ended, he received an offer to repeat his performance in Hawaii, opposite Barbara Rush.
When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.
When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!
" When he stepped down as director he received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Federal Service.
When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.
When it did come, in the second half of the century, it was Lowland Scotland that received the benefits.
When the abbot declined Hildegard's proposition, Hildegard went over his head and received the approval of Archbishop Henry I of Mainz.
When the railroads through Sweden were built late in that century, Hultsfred received a population boost.
When Edward died eight years later, Henry supported his brother Peter for the regency during Afonso V's minority, and in return received a confirmation of this levy.
When a request for change is received, it may undergo a preliminary review to determine if the requested change is compatible with the organizations business model and practices, and to determine the amount of resources needed to implement the change.
When Steven Greenberg, who received Orthodox rabbinic ordination, publicly announced that he was homosexual, there was a significant response from rabbis of all denominations reported in the Jewish newspapers.
When the Congress received notice of this on March 1, 1781, he joined Daniel Carroll in endorsing them for Maryland.
When their tour culminated in a demonstration at the National Space Society they received a standing ovation.
When Bandai received the licensing to the show's mecha, however, things changed completely.
When a labeled packet is received by an MPLS router, the topmost label is examined.
When the time of her death arrived she was carried by angels to Aix and into the oratory of Saint Maximinus, where she received the viaticum ; her body was then laid in an oratory constructed by St. Maximinus at Villa Lata, afterwards called St. Maximin.
When Rome and Carthage made peace in 241 BC, Rome secured the release of all 8, 000 prisoners of war without ransom and, furthermore, received a considerable amount of silver as a war indemnity.
When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.
When Saladin received its surrender, he proceeded to arrange the defense of Harim from the Crusaders.

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