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First Page of Darwin's Origin of Species showing title of the book. By Fernando Venzano on Unsplash

The Idea that Changed the World: Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection l Blogpost

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November 24th is World Evolution Day. It is celebrated because a paper was published that changed scientific thinking completely. On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his work: On the Origin...

During the Darwin family's 1868 holiday in her Isle of Wight cottage, Julia Margaret Cameron took portraits showing the bushy beard Darwin grew between 1862 and 1866.

Podcast I Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection

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This is our Podcast on Darwin & Evolution by Natural Selection celebrating Darwin Day on February 12, and World Evolution Day on November 24.

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Endless forms, most beautiful — Darwin and On the Origin of Species

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Charles Darwin's trip aboard the HMS Beagle helped him to understand the diversity of life on Earth & led to his theory of evolution via natural selection.

Evolutionary Tree of Life: Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", Darwin's metaphorical description of the pattern of universal common descent made literal by his greatest popularizer in the German scientific world. This is the English version of Ernst Haeckel's tree from the The Evolution of Man (Published 1879), one of several depictions of a tree of life by Haeckel. "Man" is at the crown of the tree; for Haeckel, as for many early evolutionists, humans were considered the pinnacle of evolution.

Evolutionary tree of life: modern science is showing how we got so much wrong

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In the Evolutionary tree of life science is showing how we got so much wrong. New DNA technology is shaking up the family trees of many plants and animals.