Charles DarwinDutton, 1966 - 189 Seiten Focuses on Darwin's development of his idea of natural selection, his voyages to the Galapagos Islands and the publication and defense of his works. He was the first to set forth the theory of evolution through natural selection. |
Inhalt
VOYAGE | 11 |
DISCOVERY | 77 |
HOMECOMING | 135 |
Urheberrecht | |
2 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Sedgwick adaptation ancestor animals and plants barnacles became become beetle birds breeding Captain Fitzroy Charles Darwin Charles Lyell Charles's creatures Descent discovered discovery dogs earth earthworm Emma England evolution evolved extinct father forms fossil friends Galápagos Islands gauchos gene H.M.S. Beagle Henslow horse Huxley idea Indians inheritance insects Joseph Hooker Josiah Wedgwood Lamarck Landed later living lizards look Maer Malthus mammals man's mountains mutation native natural selection naturalist never observed offspring once orchid organisms Origin of Species pampas plants and animals principle of natural Robert Darwin Robert Fitzroy rock sailed scientific scientists Sedgwick shells ship shooting Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Grammar School South America special creation stone struggle for existence survival theory Thomas Huxley thought Tierra del Fuego tion tortoises Toxodon Uniformitarianism variations vast voyage Wallace Wedgwood Wilberforce wrote young