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One darwin equals the rate of evolution that would produce a change in size by a factor of approximately 2.7 in one million years.
Darwin had already cited the mink and the otter as transitional in conversion of land carnivores to aquatic habits.
The work of Darwin and the subsequent discoveries in both the physical and natural sciences have moved this process toward completion.
This concept made Darwin an evolutionist in a sense that does not apply to earlier transmutationists like Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin.
When his first son, William, was born, Darwin took an old notebook and began to record his development in its blank pages.
With Darwin we have even more of a puzzle, because we have more evidence in his notebooks on his thoughts about the transmutation of species.
And, less well known but very useful, all the volumes of The Correspondance of Charles Darwin are searchable at Google Print.
The yachtsmen, who were sailing from Gove to Darwin expressed appreciation of the efforts by PALUMA and her ship's company.
The tortoises, marine iguanas and land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, studied by Charles Darwin, provide some of the most striking examples.
For Darwin, each seed is a tiny universe, and in his poetic fashion, Darwin anticipates the poetry of modern atomic theory.
In order to beat Darwin, their rival school, in a football game, Wagstaff hires two ringers.
Through a translator Rinpoche spoke about the purpose of his visit to Darwin.
Darwin discovered evolution through natural selection, but, a quiet man with a religious wife, he did not engage in the ensuing public debates.
The roll of honour includes many hugely respected figures from Britain's past including William Shakespeare, Horatio Nelson and Charles Darwin.
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.
By this stage the undersea cable from Java had reached Darwin and the northern tip of Australia was at last connected to the rest of the world.
The theory of natural selection thus postulates a causal relation wholly unappreciated by natural historians before Darwin.
The train's called the Ghan and it runs from Adelaide through Alice and, as of today, on to Darwin.
If Darwin could have seen the molecular complexity of the eye, his shudder might well have turned even colder.
Today very few scientists hold low opinions of Darwin, either as a person or as a scientist.
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It bears witness to the munificence of Darwin, and the ungrudging personal care of Hooker.
Darwin assumed an accumulative influence of external causes in the case of the production of new varieties or species.
Do you know if Darwin, or any of his Followers, or Antagonists, advert to this?
Darwin afterwards gave a doubtful explanation of this, and concluded that the ovary is dimerous.
We might just as well ascribe to Darwin the intention of disowning man because he set forth man's natural descent.
Or, in other words, to that divergency of type which is so well insisted on by Mr. Charles Darwin.
It was Darwin who put the crown on the edifice by his theory of natural selection.
Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.
There can be no doubt that Darwin has done much to familiarise us with this attitude.
Darwin also admitted that Scrope had to a great extent forestalled him in his theory of foliation.
Darwin, who is really the fons et origo of the present agitation, is hardly more than a name to the outer world.
Darwin began to put down a grappling iron on the outer side of the reef and to drag up coral.
Darwin holds that our musical faculties were developed by sexual preference long before the acquisition of speech.
But the researches of Darwin and his successors have thrown a good deal of new light on the question of hybridity.
This hypothesis was so improbable that Darwin himself was forced to recognize it.
Darwin has heretofore anticipated nothing but a joinder of issue upon facts.
As the following quotation shows, it is interesting as detailing a few of the steps by which Darwin reached that suspensive stage.
It would be an interesting study to compare Cuvier's views on variation with those of Darwin, who was essentially a systematist.
The throwing stick is used in New Zealand, in which country Mr. Darwin describes the practice with them.
On the question as to whether descent was monophyletic or polyphyletic Darwin expressed no dogmatic opinion.
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