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A715 Periodical contribution: Pasquarè, G., Chiesura, G., Battaglia, T.A., Guaraldi Vinassa de Regny, I. and Pezzotta, F. 2009. Charles Darwin geologist at Santiago (Cape Verde Islands): a field reappraisal. Acta Vulcanologica 20-21: 223-231. Text

study of the Cape Verde hot spot: Temporal evolution in a semistationary plate environment. J. Geophys. Res. , 113, B08201. Keynes R. D. (ed.) (2001). Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Knudsen M. F., Holm P. M., Abrahamsen N. (2009). Paleomagnetic results from a reconnaissance study of Santiago (Cape Verde Islands): Identification of cryptochron C2r.2r-1, 2009. Phys. Earth Planet. Int. , 173, 279-289. Le Bas T. P., Masson D. G., Holtom R. T., Grevemeyer I. (2007

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F2043 Book: Wyhe, John van ed. 2009. Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883. With a foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Cambridge: University Press. Text

Foreword The significance of Charles Darwin as a maker of present times has never been more evident than in the bicentennial of his birth. On the Origin of Species, first published a century and a half ago and continuously in print ever since, transformed the centuries-old debate about the history and origins of living beings. That book, and his other volumes on evolution by natural selection, were highly significant contributions to the intellectual, biological and theological revolutions of

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F2043 Book: Wyhe, John van ed. 2009. Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883. With a foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Cambridge: University Press. Text

, zoology, embryology, physiology, taxonomy, anthropology, botany, psychology and more. After Darwin's death countless obituaries and biographical accounts continued to laud him as the one figure who had solved the greatest puzzles of life on earth. Against this it seems hardly relevant that many of them did not, or did not fully, accept Darwin's stress on natural selection as the primary mechanism for evolution or ‘descent with modification'. What Darwin did achieve was to convince the

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A573 Periodical contribution: Glick, Thomas F. 2009. Was Abraham Lincoln an Evolutionist? News of the History Department at Boston University (January): 5-6. Text

him a book called, I believe, Vestiges of Creation, which interested him so much that he read it through. The volume was published in Edinburgh, and undertook to demonstrate the doctrine of development or evolution. The treatise interested him greatly, and he was deeply impressed with the notion of the so-called 'universal law'—evolution; he did not extend greatly his researches, but by continued thinking in a single channel seemed to grow into a warm advocate of the new doctrine. I also

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A715 Periodical contribution: Pasquarè, G., Chiesura, G., Battaglia, T.A., Guaraldi Vinassa de Regny, I. and Pezzotta, F. 2009. Charles Darwin geologist at Santiago (Cape Verde Islands): a field reappraisal. Acta Vulcanologica 20-21: 223-231. Text

the Santiago valleys is obviously incorrect, but it could be partially explained if we consider the formation of large estuarine basins during the longitudinal profile evolution of the valleys themselves. All the above cited stratigraphical, paleontological, volcanological and geomorphological observations made by Darwin in Santiago were clearly addressed to the geological evolution of the island. During the survey of the geological map of the Praia area, presented in this paper, the stratigraphic

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A578 Periodical contribution: Herbert, Sandra, Gibson, Sally, Norman, David, Giest, Dennis, Estes, Greg, Grant, Thalia and Miles, Andrew. 2009. Into the field again: re-examining Charles Darwin's 1835 geological work on Isla Santiago (James Island) in the Galápagos Archipelago. Earth Sciences History 28, no. 1: 1-31. Text Image PDF

(Collingwood 1962, p. 300). 1. INTRODUCTION While his work on evolution made him famous, Charles Darwin (1809–1882) contributed to disciplines across a broad spectrum of the natural sciences, including geology (e.g. Herbert 2005). This was particularly true during his service as an unpaid naturalist aboard H. M. S. 1 The island that is now most commonly called Isla Santiago was known to Darwin as James Island. Another current name for the island is Isla San Salvador. 1 [page]

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F2043 Book: Wyhe, John van ed. 2009. Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883. With a foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Cambridge: University Press. Text

evolution. The shorter publications are almost silent on politics and religion. [page] xx

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A715 Periodical contribution: Pasquarè, G., Chiesura, G., Battaglia, T.A., Guaraldi Vinassa de Regny, I. and Pezzotta, F. 2009. Charles Darwin geologist at Santiago (Cape Verde Islands): a field reappraisal. Acta Vulcanologica 20-21: 223-231. Text

for direct or indirect connection to the work carried out there by Darwin himself. Works of a certain prominence bearing on the regional geological framework and the geological evolution of the island were done by Serralheiro (1976) and Alves et alii (1979). The first consists of a voluminous regional geological monography, while the second, in which the same Serralheiro contributed the drafting, provides a geological map of the island to a scale of 1:100,000 with related explanatory notes. Both

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A715 Periodical contribution: Pasquarè, G., Chiesura, G., Battaglia, T.A., Guaraldi Vinassa de Regny, I. and Pezzotta, F. 2009. Charles Darwin geologist at Santiago (Cape Verde Islands): a field reappraisal. Acta Vulcanologica 20-21: 223-231. Text

geological evolution of Santiago, a mechanism unknown at Darwin's times. Scoria cones resting on the basaltic lava fields erupted from Pico de Antonia shield have no genetic relationship and are separated by temporal hiatuses. Scoria cones directly related with the grow of the shield are instead recognizable around the village of Rui Vaz, north of the area here studied. The cones of Monte Vermelho and Monte Facho did not produce lava effusions, contrarily to the affirmation of Darwin, while the

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A669 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2009. Darwin vs. God. BBC History Magazine 10, No. 1 (January): 26-31. Text PDF

convincing the international scientific community. An illustration of the English fantail from Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (1868) Darwin's scheme of the evolution of species, published in 1859, which demonstrated that all species are related on a single family 'tree of life' Myths and Mr Darwin The number of myths and legends about Darwin and evolution seems to be ever growing. One of the most common is that it is impossible to believe in god and evolution at the same

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A669 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2009. Darwin vs. God. BBC History Magazine 10, No. 1 (January): 26-31. Text PDF

As 2009's bicentenary celebrations for the birth of Charles Darwin begin in earnest, John van Wyhe considers how much truth there is in the belief that the naturalist caused an almighty clash between church and science THE FATHER OF EVOLUTION The greatest revolutionist Charles Darwin, pictured in 1874. His theories on pigeon skulls, the English fantail and scorpion fish (all pictured) transformed our understanding of the natural world. Yet, according to John van Wyhe, they did not directly

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A669 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2009. Darwin vs. God. BBC History Magazine 10, No. 1 (January): 26-31. Text PDF

species. He then began to write up the theory on which he had been working for 20 years, his theory of evolution by natural selection. He published his great work in 1859. This, together with the Descent of Man (1871), established him as one of the foremost naturalists in the world. Living quietly at his home in Kent, he continued to publish subsidiary evolutionary subjects showing, with great originality, further details and elaborations of how evolution by natural selection works. He died on 19

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A669 Periodical contribution: Wyhe, John van. 2009. Darwin vs. God. BBC History Magazine 10, No. 1 (January): 26-31. Text PDF

species. As the years passed and reviews and counter-reviews appeared, the fact of Darwinian evolution, the common descent of species, became increasingly accepted. It made sense of a host of diverse kinds of evidence that were otherwise inexplicable. Indeed, by around 1869, ten years after the Origin of Species first appeared, most scientists had accepted that Darwin was right. Of course things were not the same everywhere. In Germany the theory was accepted rather quickly and with little fuss

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