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van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.
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on spinning the story of Darwin in a certain way at particular times. The stories were tossed about in a sea of ever-changing local and national and international social and political contexts. Hence to explain how stories came to be a certain way one needs to appeal not only to the use they are-put to in a particular context, but also to understand their genealogy or history. Although innovative themes such as Darwin discovering evolution on the Galapagos in 1935 or a prominent role for the
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A932
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van Wyhe, John. 2012. Where do Darwin's finches come from? The evolutionary review 3, 1: 185-195.
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described. There was no turning back. After 1935 Darwin was predominantly portrayed on the Galapagos when he came to be an evolutionist. The finches, for the first time, were explicitly put forth as important influences. For the moment, however, they were largely of interest to ornithologists. 1947 Lowe and others were convinced that Darwin's finches were a particularly difficult case for Darwinian evolution. Julian Huxley, then secretary of the Zoological Society of London, suggested a young
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F1881
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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in popular literature or social media, the surprising fact is that evolution has not been a scientifically contentious issue since the 1870s. Darwin's name is so linked with evolution because the Origin of Species single-handedly convinced the international scientific community that evolution is a fact. This was an astonishing change of the views of the scientific community. As a result, Darwin became hugely famous as the man who had effected a scientific revolution with a single
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F1881
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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belief in evolution a secret. The surviving evidence from his letters and notes shows that he discussed his ideas with many friends, family, neighbours and colleagues during the years before he published his book. Indeed, Darwin himself explicitly said so in the sixth and final edition of Origin of Species, I formerly spoke to very many naturalists on the subject of evolution . (p. 424) Nor is there any foundation for the common belief that he was afraid of upsetting his religious wife. This is pure
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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work resulting from the five-year Beagle voyage. This work would take him more than a decade to complete, as Professor Henslow had foretold. Darwin conducted breeding experiments with animals and plants and corresponded and read widely for many years to refine and substantiate his theory of evolution and to work out the many aspects of its implications and to solve problems with it as they arose. In 1842 he prepared a sketch outlining his theory as it then stood. This was greatly
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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Darwin. The letter was one of the most flattering Wallace had ever received. Not only did Darwin praise Wallace's earlier theoretical article, he mentioned that Wallace's hero, the great geologist Sir Charles Lyell also found it interesting. Wallace now had a new possibility before him. He knew from their correspondence that Darwin was working on evolution too. Since Wallace was not ready to and did not send his new essay to a journal, he could send it to Darwin and ask him to
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] vii On the Origin of Species. AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN VAN WYHE Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of life on Earth and our place in it forever. His theory of evolution by natural selection, now the unifying theory of the life sciences, explained where all of the astonishingly diverse kinds of living things came from and how they became exquisitely adapted to their particular environments and ways of life. His theory also reconciled a
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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Galapagos Islands were unique species, found nowhere else. Clearly they closely resembled the species from South America 600 miles away. It seemed to Darwin as if stray migrants from South America had come to the Galapagos, after the islands rose from the sea as bare rocky volcanoes, and then changed over time in isolation. Contrary to the popular myth, the island's famous finches (now called Darwin's finches) had no pivotal role in convincing Darwin that evolution must be true, nor did he
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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Hooker had a different idea that would be fair to both Wallace and Darwin. Hooker decided to present Wallace's essay together with some older documents by Darwin at the same scientific meeting under his own (Hooker's) and Lyell's names. And thus the modern theory of evolution by natural selection was first made public. These brief papers seem so historic now but they were just too brief and therefore made little impact and apparently not a single convert. [Something that has never
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Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.
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. The fifth edition was the first Origin of Species to use the phrase survival of the fittest , coined earlier by the philosopher Herbert Spencer, and adopted by Darwin at the urging of Wallace. It is now considered to be a very misleading shorthand for the theory. The word evolution was first used in an Origin in the sixth edition. The sixth edition also included a new chapter to confute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart. It also included a glossary of scientific terms
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Wyhe, John van. 2021. Charles Darwin: Justice of the peace. The complete records (1857-1882).
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. Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Hopkins, H. 1985. The long affray: the poaching wars in Britain. London. Hubbard, E. 1905. Little journeys to homes of great scientists: Charles Darwin. East Aurora, N.Y.: The Roycrofters. Jones, D. J. V. 1979. The poacher: A study in Victorian crime and protest. Historical Journal, 22, pp. 825-890. Keynes, Randal. 2001. Annie's box: Charles Darwin, his daughter and human evolution. London. Laxton
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Wyhe, John van. 2021. Charles Darwin: Justice of the peace. The complete records (1857-1882).
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as Natural selection, Stauffer 1975. As for the phrase 'big book', see van Helvert van Wyhe 2021, p. 26: This term is used very often in the literature on CD for his unpublished work-in-progress on his theory of evolution interrupted by Wallace in 1858. Although constantly quoted, a source is never given. There are even misquotations such as Big Species Book in Glick Kohn, On evolution, 1996, p. xvi, a phrase CD never used, despite the quotation marks. There seem to be only two sources. CD to W
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Wyhe, John van. 2021. Charles Darwin: Justice of the peace. The complete records (1857-1882).
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losing his respectability because of his evolution theory. Darwin was so utterly part of wealthy, respectable society that, evolutionary theorizing notwithstanding, this was never an issue for him and never entrered his mind. Even at the height of the controversies over Darwin's theories, his social respectability was never in doubt or at issue in the slightest. After all, the debate over evolution was a debate within the intellectual and scientific elite, not one of the socially respectable vs. a
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