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Darwin's family background
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): youth and education
- Shrewsbury and Edinburgh
- Cambridge: Paley's influence
- Summer trip with Sedgwick; invitation to the Beagle voyage
- Voyage of H.M.S.Beagle:
- Volcanic islands and Humboldt's influence
Beagle voyage
- South American fauna, esp. mammals —
Inadequacy of earlier theories (esp. envirionmental determinism)
- Lyell's Principles; earthquake in Chile; coral reef theory
- Galapagos Islands (fauna, resemblances, tortoises, finches)
- Australia and beyond: flightless birds and marsupials
- Darwin's cautious decades:
- Two big new ideas:
- Search for a mechanism: notebook (1836), pigeons, animal breeders;
reads Malthus in 1837
Darwin1.ppt
- 1842 and 1844 manuscripts
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers)
- Barnacles
- Wallace and the Linnean Society papers (1858)
- "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection..." (1859)
- Natural selection: animal breeding practices, Malthus,
"struggle for existence"
Nat. selection defined
Darwin's
comparison
- some objections answered
- Branching descent: phylogenies explained; homologies explained;
geographic patterns, islands
- "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" (1871)
- Reception of Darwin's ideas:
- Reception in England and America
- T.H. Huxley vs. Wilberforce (the Oxford debates, 1860)
- H. Spencer and "social Darwinism" (Andrew Carnegie to present)
- Reception in Germany — Ernst Haeckel
- Reception in France — Clemence Royer
- Marxists; reception in Russia
- Reception elsewhere
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