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linked to by 1Two hundred years ago today, Robert Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. Over his 73 years of life, he was an ardent observer of nature and a prolific writer who published tracts on Pollination of Orchids, Formation of Volcanic and Coral Islands,...
February 12, 2009 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, and 2009 also marks the susquecentennial of his most famous work, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. There are a ton of posts, projects, and events celebrating these facts all over...
Today is Darwin Day, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. If you prefer your classics in modern Web 2.0 form, check out John Whitfield’s Blogging the Origin, or Discover’s...
Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin’s and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, these two important people were born on the same day in the same year, February 12, 1809. One would go on to explain how humans evolved as part of nature, and the...
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and later this year will see the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Scientists have a reputation as being a bit unsentimental, but we do have a habit of marking major intellectual...
In 1859, Louis Pasteur was just beginning a series of experiments disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.In 1859, diseases were thought to be caused by miasma — bad air — despite John Snow’s work on the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.In...