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On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; Also, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
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586 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1842
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Charles Darwin
2,320 books3,362 followersCharles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include
On the Origin of Species
(1859) and
The Descent of Man
(1871).
Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.
His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.
A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.
Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.
(Arabic: تشارلز داروين)
Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.
His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.
A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.
Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.
(Arabic: تشارلز داروين)
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July 30, 2020
Almost entirely based on the dubious information provided by Captain Moresby -- a notorious drunk.
December 23, 2016
Il saggio non è di facile comprensione. Come lettura è anche scorrevole, in fondo l'inglese della metà del 1800 non è troppo complesso da capire. Il problema sono i termini tecnici e il fatto che la nomenclatura e classificazione (l'una conseguenza dell'altra e viceversa) delle forme di vita è cambiata in modo pesante. Se ho trovato difficoltà io, con una laurea (vecchiotta ma buona) in biologia, mi immagino che chi è a digiuno di certi argomenti (zoologia, geologia...) abbia parecchie difficoltà nel comprendere cosa significa quello che Darwin scrisse.
Sostanzialmente Darwin ebbe una grande intuizione e la sviluppò collegando dati, notizie, nozioni di prima, seconda e terza mano provenienti dalla sua esperienza della missione quinquennale del Beagle e dai viaggi di esplorazione inglesi, francesi, portoghesi e spagnoli. La sua teoria sulle barriere coralline, gli atolli e le isole vulcaniche dei mari tropicali è oggi universalmente accettata. Ma all'epoca fu come il proverbiale "uovo di Colombo": qualcosa di semplice ma a cui nessuno aveva mai pensato.
Sostanzialmente Darwin ebbe una grande intuizione e la sviluppò collegando dati, notizie, nozioni di prima, seconda e terza mano provenienti dalla sua esperienza della missione quinquennale del Beagle e dai viaggi di esplorazione inglesi, francesi, portoghesi e spagnoli. La sua teoria sulle barriere coralline, gli atolli e le isole vulcaniche dei mari tropicali è oggi universalmente accettata. Ma all'epoca fu come il proverbiale "uovo di Colombo": qualcosa di semplice ma a cui nessuno aveva mai pensato.
February 19, 2025
One thing about Captain Moresby, drunk or sober, he's always right.
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April 18, 2017Charles Darwin takes a Logos approach as the rhetorical situation. I am not very far into the book yet but I can already tell that he uses this approach because instead of sympathy or credibility he uses hard facts and statistics to tell the readers as much as there is to know about the coral reefs.
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