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Intelligent Design | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/intelligent-designMenu. Main navigation. Intelligent Design. Life is complicated. How have the many varied and complex beings come into existence? Why are they so good at scratching out a life in their own particular way? In the eighteenth century William Paley -
Typical Students | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/typical-studentsMenu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Typical Students. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Darwin was never really a model student and he didn’t particularly enjoy his university studies, either at Edinburgh or Cambridge. At Edinburgh he spent more time -
Finches & Fishes | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/finches-fishesMenu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Finches & Fishes. Evolution can be a very slow process. Too slow to observe within a human life time? Darwin seemed to think so, but actually we now have numerous examples where long term studies of -
Life's Orgins | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/lifes-orginsMenu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. Life's Orgins. ‘Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some primordial form, into which life was first breathed’. This is all Darwin says in The -
The Modern Synthesis | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/modern-synthesisMenu. Main navigation. Work. Updating Darwin. The Modern Synthesis. The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis is the name given to the school of thought which is now broadly accepted by evolutionary scientists around the world. Formal amalgamation -
Linguistics & Literature | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/linguistics-literatureMenu. Main navigation. Darwin, Literature & Language. Darwin’s work quickly captured the minds of many writers. More recently, evolutionary ideas have been used to explore how texts and even languages change over time. Darwin’s work captivated -
Conservation | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/conservationMenu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Evolution & Conservation. Life on earth is currently undergoing one of the largest mass extinctions our planet has seen. Human activities affect the natural world in a number of ways; we destroy natural -
Vaccines | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/vaccinesMenu. Main navigation. Work. Applications. Viruses & Vaccines. All of us have experienced an illness caused by a virus at sometime in our life, from flu to verrucas to much worse. Understanding how these viruses evolve is key if we are to be able to -
Darwin & Cambridge Today | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-cambridge-todayMenu. Main navigation. Work. Darwin & Cambridge Today. Darwin's time in Cambridge was very important for him. It was here that he met Henslow and Sedgwick, two great scientists, who saw the potential in the young beetle collector and encouraged him -
How Do We Know? | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/how-do-we-knowMenu. Main navigation. Work. For Kids. How Do We Know? Darwin’s ideas have been about for 150 years, and they haven’t always been popular. At first scientists played around with several different ideas. But scientists are picky people who love -
Later Life | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/later-lifeMenu. Main navigation. Life. Work. Later In Life. Darwin had published his great work on evolution. He was recognised as a leading geologist and zoologist, but still Darwin continued to work as vigorously as his health would allow him. He still had -
Bibliography | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/bibliographyMenu. Main navigation. Bibliography. Darwin was incredibly productive throughout his life. He was limited to working for only a few hours a day for the majority of his life after returning from the Beagle voyage. But despite this he published over -
Antibiotics | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/antibioticsMenu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Antibiotics. The archetypal image of evolution is the ascent of man. This image represents Homo sapiens as a sort of pinnacle of evolutionary achievement. This is probably because, as humans, we like to -
Invasive Species | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/invasive-speciesIn some cases, a non-native species can spread widely, outcompeting the native community, and causing massive ecological and economic damage. -
Transitional Fossils | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/transitional-fossilsMenu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Transitional Fossils. A lot of people look to the fossil record for evidence of evolution. This is reasonable, if all the species we see today are connected by intermediates there should be some evidence of -
Darwin's Evolution | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwins-evolutionMenu. Main navigation. Darwin's Evolution. On the Origin of Species, written by Charles Robert Darwin and published in November 1859, is the most defining and important book in evolutionary biology. In this book, Darwin argued that different forms -
What About Wallace? | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/what-about-wallaceMenu. Main navigation. Work. Evolution. What About Wallace? This website is a tribute to the life, work and influence of Charles Darwin. However it would be unfair to omit Alfred Russel Wallace from any discussion of evolution. He co-authored, with -
Credits & Acknowledgements | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/credits-acknowledgementsMenu. Main navigation. We are very grateful toand Excellence for helping to fund this project. We wish to thank the Master and fellows of Christ's College, especially Prof. Jim Smith, Prof. Martin Johnson, Rev'd Christopher Woods and those on the -
Melanism & Moths | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/melanism-mothsMenu. Main navigation. Work. Case Studies. Peppered Moths & Melanism. Darwin’s ideas of natural selection are well-supported by the fossil record and the relationships between living species, but as evolution is often a slow process the changes -
Settling Down | Darwin
https://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/settling-downOn 28th September 1838 Darwin read Thomas Malthus’ economics book An Essay on the Principle of Population, which stated that the human population grows geometrically, unless somehow checked, and food production
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