In 1788, the Birmingham physician William Withering was consulted by an apothecary in Wellington, Shropshire, about the case ...
Quote of the day: Darwin suggests that the person who takes charge of these hidden thoughts has reached the top of moral ...
pt. 1. Introduction: Development of the theory of evolution. Sources of evolutionary ideas in the late eighteenth century ; Evolutionary and antievolutionary currents in early nineteenth-century ...
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and biologist whose work changed the way people thought about life on Earth. He wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859. This book introduced the idea of ...
1. Origins and the Greeks / Jeremy Kirby -- 2. Evolution before Darwin / Michael Ruse -- 3. Charles Darwin's geology : the root of his philosophy of the earth / David Norman -- 4. Looking back with ...
The thirtieth and final volume of the print edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin was published last year, completing an endeavor begun in the mid-1970s. After some 15,000 letters, the ...
Charles Darwin -- arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85 per cent of its contents were unknown or ...