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A companion to Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844 (Cornell U. Pr., 1987). Because Darwin was in the process of formulating his arguments, entries on a single topic might appear in several series of notes at any number of places in various manuscripts. This concordance gathers these citations toge

Published in 1842, this important monograph by Charles Darwin (1809 82) formed the first part of a trilogy of geological studies based on observations made during the celebrated second voyage of the Beagle. Influenced by Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, Darwin drew in particular on data from the survey of the Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean to support his theory that subsidence of the ocean floor can account for the formation of coral atolls. He first presented his findings in a paper for the Geological Society of London in 1837, but a heavy workload and illness delayed the...

Warum lacheln wir, wenn wir glucklich sind und weinen, wenn es uns nicht gut geht? Warum legen wir bei Zweifeln die Stirn in Falten und weiten die Augen bei Aufregung? Seit vielen Jahrhunderten schon interessieren sich Wissenschaftler fur die Erforschung der Mimik des Menschen und fragen sich, ob es Gesichtsausdrucke gibt, die allen Menschen zu eigen sind oder an den kulturellen Hintergrund gebunden sind, ob sie durch standige Wiederholungen erlernt oder angeboren sind. Charles Darwin beschaftigt sich in Hinblick auf seine Vermutung, dass alle Gemutsregungen angeboren sind, und geht daruber...

Charles Darwin, geb. 1809 in Shrewsbury, England geboren, studierte u.a. Medizin und Theologie; sein sein eigentliches Interesse aber galt der Geologie und Biologie. Im Jahre 1831 ging er von Plymouth aus auf eine Weltreise, die die Weichen fur sein ganzes weiteres Leben und Schaffen stellte. Charles Darwin starb 1882. Seine Werke gelten auch bis heute noch als Meilensteine der Soziologie und der Kulturwissenschaften. Das vorliegende Buch enthalt Darwins Thesen zu der Entstehung des Menschen: Er ging davon aus, dass alle Facetten des menschlichen Verhaltens, vor allem aber die moralischen und...

L'Origine des especes par le moyen de la selection naturelle, ou la preservation des races favorisees dans la lutte pour la vie (Titre anglais original: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) est un ouvrage de Charles Darwin, publie le 24 novembre 1859 et dans lequel il explique le mecanisme presidant, selon lui, a l'evolution graduelle des especes vivantes dans la nature."

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin - Edited by Francis Darwin. Charles Robert Darwin, 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to other animals.