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The holotype of Darwinilus sedarisi, published on Darwin's 205th birthday. More than 300 species, nine genera, and some higher taxa have been named after Darwin. [5] [6] [7] In 1837, the ornithologist John Gould named a specimen Darwin had collected in Patagonia Rhea darwinii, [8] priority was given to d'Orbigny's name for it, Rhea pennata, but it still has the common name of Darwin's rhea.
Charles Robert Darwin (/ ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / [5] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [6] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Darwin, Charles (1887), Darwin, F (ed.), The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter, London: John Murray (The Autobiography of Charles Darwin) Retrieved on 2006-12-15; Darwin, Charles (1958), Barlow, N (ed.), The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With the original omissions restored.
Darwin sent a sharp response about these "vicious circles". [12] Darwin became a close friend of the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, and on 11 January 1844 wrote to with melodramatic humour that he was "almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me ...
1859: Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace: Theory of evolution by natural selection. 1861: Louis Pasteur: Germ theory. 1861: John Tyndall: Experiments in Radiant Energy that reinforced the Greenhouse effect. 1864: James Clerk Maxwell: Theory of electromagnetism. 1865: Gregor Mendel: Mendel's laws of inheritance, basis for genetics.
1858: Theory of evolution by natural selection – Charles Darwin (discovery about 1840), Alfred Russel Wallace (discovery about 1857–58) – papers published concurrently, 1858. 1862: 109P/Swift–Tuttle , the comet generating the Perseid meteor shower , was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on 16 July 1862, and by Horace Parnell ...
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Darwin was not the first to propose that species of organisms could become modified over time. In the third edition of On the Origin of Species Darwin provided a historical sketch of his predecessors in writing of descent with modification or natural selection, including those whom he had only learned of after the 1859 publication of The Origin.