Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CHARLES DARWIN-Henshaw Ward-Bobbs-Merrill...
This was long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally...
...departure Charles Darwin was still convinced of the immutability of species. He had read the fabulous evolutionary theories of Lamarck, based on the "longing" of species to change or improve. These he considered, as did most other repu table naturalists of the period, pure pishtosh. But eight years spent among the strange leaves and unbelievable beetles of South America, among the cannibalistic Fuegian savages (with three of whom, notably one Jemmy Button, he became intimate), among the corals of the Pacific Islands and the animals and fish that swarmed in the dark oceans, made him less certain. He foresaw that...
...Darwin's Home. Dr. Buckston Browne, London surgeon, offered, and the Association accepted, an endowment to buy and maintain for the nation the homestead of Charles Darwin at Down...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...