Darwin, Charles

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1. A British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theory of evolution. This theory forms the basis for the modern life sciences. Darwin's most famous books are The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.

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Darwin's ideas were later misrepresented by some social theorists, who developed the notion of Social Darwinism to justify practices such as child labor in nineteenth-century England.

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Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and P. T. Barnum walk into a pub … a classic comic set-up that can only lead to one punch line: The Invention of the Modern Dog.

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Darwin, Charles, publication by, of Origin of Species, 326; epoch in science created by, 326; doctrine of survival of the fittest enunciated by, 330; anticipated in point of time by Dr Maillet, 330; and foreshadowed by Erasmus Darwin and others, 331; relations of Herbert Spencer and, 331; apparent reaction against theories of, setting in, 331.

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Darwin, Charles, 170, 172, 177, 178, 180, 181-189; and A. R. Wallace, 183, 186, 189; 198.

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Sometimes he succumbed to the reality; and if, for instance, he happened to mention Darwin, and felt a blank before him, he would add in a parenthesis, “Darwin, Charles, author of the Origin of Species, 1859; epoch-making work.”

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Danger Island, 230 Darwin, Charles, on coral reefs, 55 De Sainson, 112 D'Urville, J. Dumont, 11, 58, 110, 123, 357 n.3,

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