When the Beagle returned on 2 October , Darwin was a celebrity in scientific circles. He visited his home in Shrewsbury and his father organised investments so that Darwin could become a self-funded gentleman scientist.

Darwin then went to Cambridge and persuaded Henslow to work on botanical descriptions of modern plants he had collected. Afterwards Darwin went round the London institutions to find the best naturalists available to describe his other collections for timely publication.

After working on Darwin’s collection of fossil bones at his Royal College of Surgeons, Owen caused great surprise by revealing that some were from gigantic extinct rodents and sloths. This enhanced Darwin’s reputation. With Lyell’s enthusiastic backing, Darwin read his first paper to the Geological Society of London on 4 January , arguing that the South American landmass was slowly rising.

On the same day Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens to the Zoological Society. The Mammalia were taken on by George R. Others on the Beagle , including FitzRoy, had also collected these birds and had been more careful with their notes, enabling Darwin to determine from which island each species had come.

In London, Darwin stayed with his freethinking brother Erasmus and at dinner parties met inspiring savants who thought that God preordained life by natural laws rather than ad hoc miraculous creations. Scientific circles were buzzing with ideas of transmutation of species controversially associated with Radical unrest. Darwin preferred the respectability of his friends the Cambridge Dons, even though his ideas were pushing beyond their belief that natural history must justify religion and social order.

On 17 February , Lyell used his presidential address at the Geographical Society to present Owen’s findings to date on Darwin’s fossils, noting particularly the unexpected implication that extinct species were related to current species in the same locality.

At the same meeting Darwin was elected to the Council of the Society. He had already been invited by FitzRoy to contribute a Journal based on his field notes as the natural history section of the captain’s account of the Beagle’ s voyage. He now plunged into writing a book on South American Geology. At the same time he speculated on transmutation in his Red Notebook which he had begun on the Beagle. Another project he started was getting the expert reports on his collection published as a multivolume Zoology of the Voyage of H.

Under pressure with organising Zoology and correcting proofs of his Journal , Darwin’s health suffered. On 20 September he suffered “palpitations of the heart” and left for a month of recuperation in the country. He visited Maer Hall where his invalid aunt was being cared for by her spinster daughter Emma Wedgwood, and entertained his relatives with tales of his travels.

His uncle Jos pointed out an area of ground where cinders had disappeared under loam and suggested that this might have been the work of earthworms. This led Darwin to the idea for a talk which he gave to the Geological Society on 1 November, on the unusually mundane subject of worm casts. This work is considered to be the first scholarly treatment of soil forming processes.

He had avoided taking on official posts which would have taken up valuable time, but by March William Whewell had recruited him as Secretary of the Geological Society. Illness prompted Darwin to take a break from the pressure of work and he went “geologising” in Scotland.

In glorious weather he visited Glen Roy to see the phenomenon known as “roads” which he incorrectly identified as raised beaches. Fully recuperated, he returned home to Shrewsbury.

Scientifically pondering his career and prospects he drew up a list with columns headed “Marry” and “Not Marry”. Entries in the pro-marriage column included “constant companion and a friend in old age He discussed the prospect of marriage with his father then went to visit his cousin Emma on 29 July He did not get around to proposing, but against his father’s advice he told her of his ideas on transmutation.

While his thoughts and work continued in London over the autumn he suffered repeated bouts of illness. On 11 November he returned and proposed to Emma, once more telling her his ideas. She accepted, but later wrote beseeching him to read from the Gospel of St. John a section on love and following the Way which also states that “If a man abide not in me He sent a warm reply which eased her concern, but she would continue to worry that his lapses of faith could endanger her hope that they would meet in afterlife.

Darwin considered Malthus’s argument that human population increases more quickly than food production, leaving people competing for food and making charity useless. He later formulated this in the terms of his biological theory as: “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence; consequently he is occasionally subjected to a severe struggle for existence, and natural selection will have effected whatever lies within its scope.

Towards the end of November he compared breeders selecting traits to a Malthusian Nature selecting from variants thrown up by “chance” so that “every part of newly acquired structure is fully practised and perfected”, and thought this “the most beautiful part of my theory” of how species originated. He went house-hunting and eventually found “Macaw Cottage” in Gower Street, London, then moved his “museum” in over Christmas. He was showing the stress, and Emma wrote urging him to get some rest, almost prophetically remarking “So don’t be ill any more my dear Charley till I can be with you to nurse you.

The Darwins had ten children, three of whom died early. Many of his surviving children and their grandchildren would later achieve notability themselves see Darwin — Wedgwood family. Several of their children suffered illness or weaknesses, and Charles Darwin’s fear that this might be due to the closeness of his and Emma’s lineage was expressed in his writings on the ill effects of inbreeding and advantages of crossing.

He had a vast amount of work to do, writing up all his findings and supervising the preparation of the multivolume Zoology , which would describe his collections. He embarked on extensive experiments with plants and consultations with animal husbanders, including pigeon and pig breeders, trying to find soundly based answers to all the arguments he anticipated when he presented his theory in public. Later that year it was published on its own, becoming the bestseller today known as The Voyage of the Beagle.

In December , as Emma’s first pregnancy progressed, Darwin suffered more illness and accomplished little during the following year. Darwin tried to explain his theory to close friends, but they were slow to show interest and thought that selection must need a divine selector. In the family moved to rural Down House to escape the pressures of London. Darwin formulated a short “Pencil Sketch” of his theory, and by had written a page “Essay” that expanded his early ideas on natural selection.

Darwin completed his third Geological book in Assisted by his friend, the young botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, he embarked on a huge study of barnacles. In , Hooker read the “Essay” and sent notes that provided Darwin with the calm critical feedback that he needed. Darwin feared putting the theory out in an incomplete form, as his ideas about evolution would be highly controversial if any attention was paid to them at all.

Other ideas about evolution — especially the work of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck — had been soundly dismissed by the British scientific community, and were associated with political radicalism. The anonymous publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation in created another controversy over radicalism and evolution, and was severely attacked by Darwin’s friends who stressed that no reputable scientist would want to be associated with such ideas.

To try to deal with his illness, Darwin went to a spa in Malvern in , and to his surprise found that the two months of water treatment helped. In his work on barnacles he found “homologies” that supported his theory by showing that slightly changed body parts could serve different functions to meet new conditions.

Then his treasured daughter Annie fell ill, reawakening his fears that his illness might be hereditary. After a long series of crises, she died and Darwin lost all faith in a beneficent God. He met the young freethinking naturalist Thomas Huxley who was to become a close friend and ally. Darwin’s work on barnacles Cirripedia earned him the Royal Society’s Royal Medal in , establishing his reputation as a biologist.

He completed this study in and turned his attention to his theory of species. Darwin found an answer to the problem of how genera forked in an analogy with industrial ideas of division of labour, with specialised varieties each finding their niche so that species could diverge.

He experimented with seeds, testing their ability to survive sea-water to transfer species to isolated islands, and bred pigeons to test his ideas of natural selection being comparable to the “artificial selection” used by pigeon breeders. In the spring of , Lyell read a paper on the Introduction of species by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist working in Borneo. Lyell urged Darwin to publish his theory to establish precedence.

Despite illness, Darwin began a 3-volume book titled Natural Selection , getting specimens and information from naturalists including Wallace and Asa Gray. In December as Darwin worked on the book he received a letter from Wallace asking if it would delve into human origins. Darwin did so, shocked that he had been “forestalled”. Though Wallace had not asked for publication, Darwin offered to send it to any journal that Wallace chose. He put matters in the hands of Lyell and Hooker.

Darwin’s infant son died and he was unable to attend. The initial announcement of the theory gained little immediate attention. It was mentioned briefly in a few small reviews, but to most people it seemed much the same as other varieties of evolutionary thought.

For the next thirteen months Darwin suffered from ill health and struggled to produce an abstract of his “big book on species”. Receiving constant encouragement from his scientific friends, Darwin finally finished his abstract and Lyell arranged to have it published by John Murray.

The title was agreed as On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , and when the book went on sale to the trade on 22 November , the stock of 1, copies was oversubscribed.

At the time “Evolutionism” implied creation without divine intervention, and Darwin avoided using the words “evolution” or “evolve”, though the book ends by stating that “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Darwin wrote in deliberate understatement that “light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Darwin’s book set off a public controversy which he monitored closely, keeping press cuttings of thousands of reviews, articles, satires, parodies and caricatures. Reviewers were quick to pick out the unstated implications of “men from monkeys”, though a Unitarian review was favourable and The Times published a glowing review by Huxley which included swipes at Richard Owen, leader of the scientific establishment Huxley was trying to overthrow.

Owen initially appeared neutral, but then wrote a review condemning the book. The Church of England scientific establishment including Darwin’s old Cambridge tutors Sedgwick and Henslow reacted against the book, though it was well received by a younger generation of professional naturalists. Then Essays and Reviews by seven liberal Anglican theologians declared that miracles were irrational and supported the Origin , distracting attention away from Darwin.

The most famous confrontation took place at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. In the ensuing debate Joseph Hooker argued strongly for Darwin and Thomas Huxley established himself as “Darwin’s bulldog” — the fiercest defender of evolutionary theory on the Victorian stage.

The story is that on being asked by Wilberforce whether he was descended from monkeys on his grandfather’s side or his grandmother’s side, Huxley muttered: “The Lord has delivered him into my hands” and replied that he “would rather be descended from an ape than from a cultivated man who used his gifts of culture and eloquence in the service of prejudice and falsehood” this is contested [4].

The story spread around the country: Huxley had said he would rather be an ape than a Bishop. Many people felt that Darwin’s view of nature destroyed the important distinction between man and beast. Darwin himself did not personally defend his theories in public, though he read eagerly about the continuing debates. He was frequently very ill, and mustered support through letters and correspondence.

A core circle of scientific friends — Huxley, Hooker, Charles Lyell and Asa Gray — actively pushed his work to the fore of the scientific and public stage, defending him against his many critics in this key scientific controversy of the era, and helping to gain him the honour of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal in Darwin’s theory also resonated with various movements at the time and became a key fixture of popular culture.

The book was translated into many languages and went through numerous reprints. It became a staple scientific text accessible both to a newly curious middle class and to “working men”, and was hailed as the most controversial and discussed scientific book ever written.

Despite repeated bouts of illness during the last twenty-two years of his life Darwin pressed on with his work. He had published an abstract of his theory, but more controversial aspects of his “big book” were still incomplete. These included explicit evidence of humankind’s descent from earlier animals, and exploration of possible causes underlying the development of society and of human mental abilities.

He had yet to explain features with no obvious utility other than decorative beauty. His experiments, research and writing continued. When Darwin’s daughter fell ill he set aside his experiments with seedlings and domestic animals to go with her to a seaside resort where he became interested in wild orchids.

This developed into an innovative study of how their beautiful flowers served to control insect pollination and ensure cross fertilisation.

As with the barnacles, homologous parts served different functions in different species. Back at home he lay on his sickbed in a room filled with experiments on climbing plants. He was visited by a reverent Ernst Haeckel who had spread the gospel of Darwinismus in Germany.

Even at Cambridge, students now supported his ideas. Huxley gave “working-men’s lectures” to widen the audience, and Wallace remained a supporter but increasingly turned to spiritualism. Variation grew to two huge volumes, forcing him to leave out humankind and sexual selection, but when printed was in huge demand.

The question of human evolution had been taken up by his supporters and detractors shortly after the publication of The Origin of Species , but Darwin’s own contribution to the subject came more than ten years later with the two-volume The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex published in In the second volume, Darwin introduced in full his concept of sexual selection to explain the evolution of human culture, the differences between the human sexes, and the differentiation of human races, as well as the beautiful and seemingly non-adaptive plumage of birds.

A year later Darwin published his last major work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , which focused on the evolution of human psychology and its continuity with to the behaviour of animals. He developed his ideas that the human mind and cultures were developed by natural and sexual selection, an approach which has been revived in the last two decades with the emergence of evolutionary psychology.

As he concluded in Descent of Man , Darwin felt that despite all of humankind’s “noble qualities” and “exalted powers”:. His evolution-related experiments and investigations culminated in five books on plants, and then his last book returned to the effect worms have on soil levels. Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April He had expected to be buried in St Mary’s churchyard at Downe, but at the request of Darwin’s colleagues, William Spottiswoode President of the Royal Society arranged for Darwin to be given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.

Charles Darwin came from a Nonconformist background. Though several members of his family were Freethinkers, openly lacking conventional religious beliefs, he did not initially doubt the literal truth of the Bible. He attended a Church of England school, then at Cambridge studied Anglican theology to become a clergyman and was fully convinced by William Paley’s teleological argument that design in nature proved the existence of God.

However, his beliefs began to shift during his time on board HMS Beagle. He questioned what he saw—wondering, for example, at beautiful deep-ocean creatures created where no one could see them, and shuddering at the sight of a wasp paralysing caterpillars as live food for its eggs; he saw the latter as contradicting Paley’s vision of beneficent design.

While on the Beagle Darwin was quite orthodox and would quote the Bible as an authority on morality, but had come to see the history in the Old Testament as being false and untrustworthy. Upon his return, he investigated transmutation of species. He knew that his clerical naturalist friends thought this a bestial heresy undermining miraculous justifications for the social order and knew that such revolutionary ideas were especially unwelcome at a time when the Church of England’s established position was under attack from radical Dissenters and atheists.

While secretly developing his theory of natural selection, Darwin even wrote of religion as a tribal survival strategy, though he still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver. After years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution’s proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims.

And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the “evolving” peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals’ absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution’s scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force.

They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter’s razor-sharp wit, Godless is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today’s most lively and impassioned conservative voices. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe.

In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as ‘religion. Charles Darwin’s scientific work transformed the way people think about life on Earth. From his childhood in England to his pivotal ocean voyages, he took every opportunity to study the natural world.

And he helped shape a new understanding of how life forms change over time. This graphic biography highlights Darwin’s youthful push to become a naturalist—against the wishes of his stern father. It also shares a look at his field research, collaborations, and scientific breakthroughs. Skip to content. The Evolution of Charles Darwin. Author : George A. Author : Frederick Burkhardt,Alison M.

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