The Autiobiography of Charles Darwin
A German Editor having written to me for an account of the development of my mind and character with some sketch of my autobiography, I have thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might […]
A German Editor having written to me for an account of the development of my mind and character with some sketch of my autobiography, I have thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might […]
CHAPTER I ST. JAGO — CAPE DE VERD ISLANDSPorto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric Dust withInfusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St.Paul’s Rocks, non-volcanic — Singular Incrustations —Insects the first Colonists […]
INTRODUCTION. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the […]
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, […]
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that […]