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Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. All Aboard The Beagle! Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle was a key turning point in his life, as he acknowledges in his Autobiography:. ’The yoyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life,

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. How Did The Victorian World Respond To Darwin? When Darwin first wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph Hooker detailing what he modestly called his ‘presumptuous’ and ‘foolish’ work on evolution and

Menu. Main navigation. Barnacles. Darwin was to spend eight hard years on barnacles, toiling away dissecting these tiny creatures under the microscope. The result was a 4 volume monograph on the Cirrepedia, living and extinct – the authoritative

Menu. Main navigation. Welcome! Welcome to the Charles Darwin & Evolution website. This website celebrates the life, work and impact of Charles Darwin. There are lots of articles about who Darwin was, what he did and why he matters. You can also

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. What use is evolution? Many people spend their whole lives carrying out research on evolutionary biology. Governments give scientists millions of pounds to do this research. Why? Apart from the obvious

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Teachers. Class Trips In Cambridge. Sometimes getting out of the classroom and teaching in a different setting can be great for both students and teachers. Cambridge has a lot of places ideal for educational school

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. The Fossil Record - The Prodigal Son Returns. Darwin seemingly had little faith in the fossil record as a source of evidence for his theory; it was just too incomplete:. ‘I look at the natural

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Evolution And Fish Stocks. Fish and shellfish have long been a vital food source for humans. Historically, fish stocks seemed so plentiful that many thought there were such huge amounts of fish in the sea

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Variation. Understanding how individuals of the same species vary was key to Darwin developing his theory. He had begun noticing variability of individuals during the Beagle Voyage, but it was through his

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Galapagos. The Galapagos holds a special place in the history of evolution, but the story of how the island’s wildlife influenced Darwin’s thought is often misconstrued. Many people imagine the young Charles

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Young Man! The most common image of Darwin is as an old man with a bushy beard, a bald head, and usually a bit of sour expression on his face. This is a great shame as such images fail to get

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Symbiosis: No Man Is An Island. John Donne once wrote that no man is an island. Biology can go one better and can assert that no organism is an island either! Clearly no organism exists wholly by itself in

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Natural Selection. Natural selection is Darwin’s most famous theory; it states that evolutionary change comes through the production of variation in each generation and differential survival of individuals

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. Human Evolution. Please see the corresponding article in the Works section. 2015 Christ's College, Cambridge. Primate 6 Faces by Stephen D. Nash/Conservation International. 1997. Used with permission. 2024.

Menu. Main navigation. Darwin The Philosopher. Darwin is remembered for his brilliant science: in many ways though he was equally gifted in philosophy. He himself made many fundamental changes to the way we approach philosophy, and his work has

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. Science works by continually testing and revising its theories. Darwin's theories on how evolution works have been no exception. 150 years worth of research has shown that Darwin was right, but have also

Menu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. What Is Evolution? Evolution is the slow process that changes animals and plants and it’s a great piece of science! It describes loads of things in nature like fossils, peacocks' tails, lions’ teeth,

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Trilobites. This case study focuses on a group of extinct early arthropods called trilobites. Trilobites were a hugely successful group and they are the most diverse group recorded in the fossil record, but

Menu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Darwin's Childhood. Born on 12th February 1809 into a wealthy family, Charles Robert Darwin had a pretty ordinary childhood. He didn’t enjoy or do well at school but he had, from an early age, a passion for

Menu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Mimicry. When one species looks very similar to another we say they mimic one another. You’ll be familiar with some common mimics, for example many bee, wasp and hoverfly species mimic each other all