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Charles Darwin


Born
in Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, The United Kingdom
February 12, 1809

Died
April 19, 1882

Genre
Science

Influences
Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Galton, Alexander von Humboldt, Jean-Bapt ...more


Charles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).

Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundati ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 146,568 ratings · 5,393 reviews · 2,387 distinct works • Similar authors
The Origin of Species
4.01 avg rating — 122,070 ratings — published 1859 — 2 editions
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Voyage of the Beagle
4.02 avg rating — 8,439 ratings — published 1839 — 863 editions
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The Descent of Man
4.04 avg rating — 4,466 ratings — published 1871 — 579 editions
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The Autobiography of Charle...
3.84 avg rating — 3,233 ratings — published 1887 — 193 editions
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The Expression of the Emoti...
3.99 avg rating — 1,322 ratings — published 1872 — 478 editions
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On Natural Selection
3.90 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 1859 — 24 editions
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It Was Snowing Butterflies
3.32 avg rating — 1,438 ratings — published 1835 — 6 editions
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“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
tags: arts, life, music, poetry
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance
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