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...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

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Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

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Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together ...

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[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

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Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi...

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Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could...

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This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

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Stephen Jay GouldLeonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mentio...

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It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetic...

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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.