...Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, published in 1859, was a revolutionary attempt “to overthrow the dogma of separate creations,” a declaration that provoked different reactions among the religious, ranging from mild enthusiasm to anger. Christians sympathetic to Darwin's effort...

... to declare that “the despised person is not worth looking at, or is disagreeable to behold.” Expression, 255. Courtesy of Wellcome Library, London. Chapter 11 takes the history of sexual selection from Darwin’s “big species” book up to the publication of the Origin of Species, focusing...

... of design, that almost every leading naturalist of the time recognized in the animal kingdom. This problem hovered over Darwin's early efforts at constructing his theory of evolution, and his deferred resolution at the end of Origin of Species demonstrates its critical role in the formation...

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... of sympatric speciation, as opposed to allopatric speciation. The hinge of his several arguments depends on attributing intentional powers to nature. Jerry Fodor complains that neo-Darwinians make a similar attribution; he’s wrong about that. But if he had examined the Origin of Species, he...

...Upon its publication, On The Origin of Species was critically embraced in Europe and North America. But how did Charles Darwin's theories fare in other regions of the world? This book offers a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating...

...This book offers a new explanation for Charles Darwin’s apparent caution in publishing On the Origin of Species, which appeared more than two decades after he privately developed his first theories of evolution by natural selection. Whereas this restraint is often attributed to Darwin’s fear...

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... of these alternative approaches and the extent to which the literature of natural theology had trodden the path between Paley's watchmaker and Darwin's natural selection prior to the publication of the latter's Origin of Species. In particular, it focuses on the Bridgewater Treatises...

... was not an ideology, but rather an “anti-ideology” that for the first time in history attributed the origin of species to natural causes. This chapter challenges the view that there was no scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. On the contrary, it contends that a naturalistic theory of the origin of species...

... to the middle-class men of Chester. He was later greatly influenced by Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, whereby his studies on geology interrogated his practice as a novelist. His fictional heroes were practitioners of geology, from Yeast's Lancelot Smith, to Alton Locke...

...) is variable through time. The actual time and morphology at the origin of each species is approximated within the dashed borders. Our understanding of processes that contribute to the origin of species is informed by the study of phenotypic variation (morphology) through geologic time and broader phenotypes...

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...The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers...

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...This chapter explores how, in the wake of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the fossil remains of so-called “missing links” like the Archaeopteryx that soon after came to light, Cuvierian correlation faced a profound crisis. Rather than simply being eclipsed by evolution, however...

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.... It then comments on the science of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which it argues was not perfect because Darwin encountered a lot of problems with heredity and with the fossil record. Physicists argued that the earth's lifespan is not long enough to accomodate a leisurely process...

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