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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
.; Temkin, O., and Straus, W. L., eds., Forerunners of Darwin: 1745-1859. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 30-48. Glass, Bentley, 1959. Maupertuis, pioneer of genetics and evolution, ch. 3 in Glass, B.; Temkin, O., and Straus, W. L., eds., Forerunners of Darwin: 1745-1859. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 51-83. Glass, Bentley, 1959. Heredity and variation in the eighteenth century concept of the species, ch. 6 in Glass, B.; Temkin, O., and Straus, W. L., eds., Forerunners
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
forgotten Mr. Lonsdale. Geological Magazine, v. 87, p. 292-296. Taub, Liba, 1993. Evolutionary ideas and empirical methods: the analogy between language and species in works by Lyell and Schleicher. British Journal for the History of Science, v. 26, p. 171-193. Tax, Sol, Ed. 1960. Evolution after Darwin. 3 Vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Taylor, Angus, 1989. The significance of Darwinian theory for Marx and Engels. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, v. 19, p. 409-423. Tee, G. J
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A3308    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. Commemorating Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Review 1, no. 1 (February): 42-47.   Text   PDF
a revolution in our understanding of life on earth. It was a revolution most people felt had happened in the twenty years after the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859. Evolution was accepted as a fact by the international scientific community. At his death in 1882 Darwin was the subject of hundreds of obituaries around the world. However the first anniversary to be celebrated came twenty-seven years later in 1909. [page] 4
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A3308    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. Commemorating Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Review 1, no. 1 (February): 42-47.   Text   PDF
posterity. Nowadays Darwin is remembered for an increasingly narrow set of achievements. One other thing one sees in the Darwin celebrations is the perpetuation or rather dissemination of myths and legends. Earlier anniversaries disseminated the myth that Darwin discovered evolution while in the Galapagos Islands when he observed the beaks of the finches. Frank Sulloway refuted this view in 1982. More recent works continue to repeat the discredited theories that Darwin withheld his theory of evolution
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A3308    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. Commemorating Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Review 1, no. 1 (February): 42-47.   Text   PDF
the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859. ---. On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects. London: John Murray, 1862. ---. Insectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875. ---. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John Murray, 1881. Anon. How Others See Us. Christ's College Magazine 24 (1909): 8. Richmond, Marsha. The 1909 Darwin Celebration: Reexamining Evolution in the
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A3308    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. Commemorating Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Review 1, no. 1 (February): 42-47.   Text   PDF
lecture on Charles Darwin. There was an awkward moment of silence broken when the bartender asked is he the one known for the big bang? As an experiment I gave an explanation of what Darwin had achieved without using the word evolution. A self-professed Christian, the bartender was a remarkably independent thinker. Presented with the story in a non-confrontational way, he seemed quite happy to accept all the essentials of the history of life as now understood by science. A shuttle driver in
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A623    Periodical contribution:     Hodge, Jonathan. 2009. Darwin, the Galapagos and his changing thoughts about species origins: 1835-1837. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4th ser., 61, Supplement II, No. 7: 89-106.   Text   PDF
. Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honor of Stillman Drake. Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. [Reprinted in Hodge 2009a.] Hodge, M.J.S. 1991. Origins and Species. A Study of the Historical Sources of Darwinism. Garland, New York, New York, USA. Hodge, M.J.S. 2009a. Darwin Studies. A Theorist and His Theories in their Contexts. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK and Burlington, Vermont, USA. Hodge, M.J.S. 2009b. Lyell, Charles. Pages 697-700 in M. Ruse and J. Travis, eds., Evolution. The First
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A690    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. 'Almighty God! what a wonderful discovery!': Did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space? Endeavour 34, no. 3, (September): 95-103.   Text
thought his findings would create a new foundation for the theory of evolution. Around the same time a number of other theorists, particularly in Germany, began publishing speculations about the possibility of life reaching Earth on meteorites.15 Hahn and other meteor theorists before him waxed lyrical about the revolutionary nature of their discoveries. They believed that the sciences had seen such a number of great revolutions, most recently perhaps the theory of evolution, and that it was only
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A3308    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. Commemorating Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Review 1, no. 1 (February): 42-47.   Text   PDF
. Other smaller but no less outstanding exhibitions include the permanent new exhibition Charles Darwin and Evolution at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen or Darwin and Dinosaurs at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, Colorado which boasts the finest collection of Darwin's works I have seen on display anywhere. Many existing museums have refurbished their displays such as Darwin's former home, Down House. Darwin's college, Christ's College, Cambridge
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A3308    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. Commemorating Charles Darwin. The Evolutionary Review 1, no. 1 (February): 42-47.   Text   PDF
cut across so many fields that no one today is an expert in all of them. The best place to get even a passing impression of this is to scroll down the publications page on Darwin Online [darwin-online.org.uk](which lists his complete publications. Darwin's main contributions can be divided between geology and palaeontology, evolution, and botany. His early work during the voyage of the Beagle was largely geological and saw him advance from a collector and describer to an ambitious theorist. He
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A623    Periodical contribution:     Hodge, Jonathan. 2009. Darwin, the Galapagos and his changing thoughts about species origins: 1835-1837. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4th ser., 61, Supplement II, No. 7: 89-106.   Text   PDF
Galapagos mockingbirds, just these three species, that somehow sufficed to move Darwin, as the usual phrasing has it, from creation to evolution. Any such claim is narratively misleading because analytically too indiscriminate. Along with other species, the mockingbirds — on the mainland and the islands — came within the general conclusion bearing on the primary rationale. On their own, the three archipelago species also bore on the secondary rationale. The primary rationale concerned common ancestry as
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A690    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. 'Almighty God! what a wonderful discovery!': Did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space? Endeavour 34, no. 3, (September): 95-103.   Text
contemporaries of organic change over time via descent with modification, and primarily through natural selection. Insisting on a purely natural origin of life as well would make the theory of evolution appear too unorthodox for many of his readers. Even to the end of his life Darwin maintained that there was no evidence to support spontaneous generation. Though no evidence worth anything has as yet, in my opinion, been advanced in favour of a living being, being developed from inorganic matter
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A1283    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2011. Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? The public domain review (28 July).   Text   PDF
evidence for evolution was far less complete than it is now? The explanation is that for very many Victorians the choice was not between God and science, religion or evolution, but between different notions of how God designed nature. It was already widely accepted that fixed natural laws (or secondary laws) had been discovered that explained natural phenomena from astronomy and chemistry to physiology and geology. Darwin, it was believed, had simply discovered a new law of nature designed by God. And
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
irrefutably in 1982 that Darwin did not discover evolution while on the Galapagos Islands and that the finches did not have such an influence.1 There is no trace of evolution in Darwin's now missing Galapagos Notebook.2 Although refuted in the specialist literature, various legends of Darwin, the Galapagos, and its finches continue to abound in popular media. But if Darwin did not discover evolution when he saw the beaks of the finches on the Galapagos, then why are these perhaps the most widespread
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
sion. Francis aimed to stress the importance of the voyage and that his fathers thoughts must have turned toward evolution before returning to England. Francis and A. C. Seward returned to the question in More Letters of Charles Darwin (1903). The particular point that Huxley made in 1888 that Darwin could not have come to see evolution before the return of the Beagle was again contested: This seems to us inconsistent with Darwin's own statement that it was especially the character of the
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
Woodcut from Darwin, Journal of Researches (1845): 379. Reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe, ed. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk), 2002-. IN THE BEGINNING If we want to understand how the story of the discovery of evolution has changed we need to be aware of what was available as source material at different times. It is important to remember that Darwin himself never said that he discovered evolution on the Galapagos. In the first lines of
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
as the sole influence or as the locale of discovery. The following year, 1888, Thomas Henry Huxley published an obituary notice of Darwin in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Huxley argued that Darwin could not have begun to speculate about evolution until his specimens had been identified against institutional collections in Britain after the voyage. To further bolster his case Huxley cited Darwin's 1877 letter to the German zoologist Otto Zacharias: When I was on board the 'Beagle,' I
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
of the theory of evolution by natural selection, and the 1859 publication of Origin of Species. On this occasion for increased attention to Darwin and his discoveries, the stories were markedly different from 1909. The Galapagos were now always a crucial part of the story and the finches played a crucial role for the origins of Darwin's theory in about 50 percent of publications. Also about this time a new version of the story began to appear: the finches convincing Darwin of evolution while
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
versions of the story eventually tended to dominate in the place of others, there is no simple pattern of inevitable progress toward the modern legends of Darwin's finches. In fact there were still accounts in which the Galapagos or Darwin's finches were given no special role or not even mentioned in the 1970s and 1980s. Always keeping in mind that the evolution of ideas over time is a very complex continuum, one can, for simplicity's sake, artificially break down the evolution of these legends
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A932    Periodical contribution:     van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.   Text   PDF
not say clearly where or when these facts had this influence on him. Thus the passages could be read a number of ways: the experience of collecting and observing in the Galapagos convinced him of evolution on the islands, or only started him thinking about it, or convinced him later in England. Most of his statements list the Galapagos fauna as one of three main influences that convinced him of evolution, as in his autobiography first published in Life and Letters in 1887: During the voyage of
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