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Charles Darwin
How Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin: HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin: South American journeys HMS Beagle Darwin's rhea
Visit Santiago Island, in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin spent weeks experimenting, observing, and collecting specimens of the unique Galapagos wildlife
Charles Darwin
Know how the Galapagos finches from Charles Darwin's specimen collection helped him in the formulation of his theory of evolution, particularly the woodpecker finch
adaptive radiation in Galapagos finches
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How Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution
Overview of Charles Darwin's life, with a focus on his work involving evolution.
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Visit Santiago Island, in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin spent weeks experimenting, observing, and collecting specimens of the unique Galapagos wildlife
Tour San Salvador (Santiago) Island, in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin...
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Know how the Galapagos finches from Charles Darwin's specimen collection helped him in the formulation of his theory of evolution, particularly the woodpecker finch
Learn about the Galapagos finches, particularly the woodpecker finch (Camarhynchus...
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See how game theory applies to the peacock's tail evolution
Learn how game theory applies to the evolution of the peacock's tail.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, carbon-print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
Courtesy of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Charles Darwin: HMS Beagle voyage
A map of Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle in 1831–36.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Charles Darwin: South American journeys
A map of Charles Darwin's South American journeys from February 1832 to September...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
HMS Beagle
The HMS Beagle resting on the sands near Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia, South America....
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Darwin's rhea
Illustration of Darwin's rhea (formerly Rhea darwinii, now Pterocnemia...
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836.-Volume 2 (p.320) by Charles Darwin (Smith Elder and Company, London, 1839)
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, watercolour, late 1830s.
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adaptive radiation in Galapagos finches
Fourteen species of Galapagos finches that evolved from a common ancestor. The different...
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Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Title page of the 1859 edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3b16392)
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin leaning against a column on the veranda of Down House in 1881.
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Charles Darwin: Hamburgh fowl
Illustration of a Hamburgh fowl from The Variation of Animals and Plants Under...
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1(P.228) By Charles Darwin (John Murray, London, ,1905)
Charles Darwin: half-lop rabbit
Illustration of a half-lop rabbit from The Variation of Animals and Plants Under...
The Variation of Animals & Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1 (p.133) by Charles Darwin (John Murray, London, 1905)
Charles Darwin: rabbit skulls
Illustration depicting skulls of a wild rabbit and a large lop-eared rabbit from...
The Variation of Animals & Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1 (p.133) by Charles Darwin (John Murray, London, 1905)
Charles Darwin: purple loosestrife
Illustration of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) flowers from The...
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, Part 5 (p.139) by Charles Darwin (D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1877)
Charles Darwin cartoon in Vanity Fair
Cartoon of Charles Darwin from Vanity Fair magazine, September 1871.
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Dr. Darwin's Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
Dr. Darwin's Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, a cartoon by Linley...
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Charles Darwin cartoon
Charles Darwin portrayed as an ape in a cartoon in The Hornet magazine,...
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Charles Darwin: beetles
Illustration of various beetles from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation...
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volume 1 p.358, By Charles Darwin( D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872)
Charles Darwin: beetles
Illustration of various beetles from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation...
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volume 1 p.357, By Charles Darwin( D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872)
Charles Darwin: primate expressions
Illustration of primate expressions from The Expression of the Emotions in Man...
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals(p.136) by Charles Darwin (D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1886)
Charles Darwin cartoon Man Is but a Worm
Wood engraving of Man Is but a Worm, a cartoon from Punch Almanack...
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Charles Darwin in The Century Magazine
Charles Darwin in a photograph (c. 1874) published posthumously in The Century...
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, 1881.
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Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Title page of the 1859 edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-95224)
Darwin's finches
A sketch of four species of finches observed by British naturalist Charles Darwin...
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