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Darwin Online: Darwin's Publications

Darwin Online: Darwin's Publications
British Entomology [←click finches for illustrations] 1829-1832. [Records of captured insects]. In Stephens, Illustrations of British entomology. Letters on Geology [1835]. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 1838-1843. Part 1 Fossil Mammalia by R. Journal of Researches (or Voyage of the Beagle) The narrative of the voyages of H.M. King, P. 1839. Questions About the Breeding of Animals [1839]. Geology of The Voyage of The Beagle 1842. Letters on guanacos 1844. Brayley Testimonials 1845. Hooker Testimonials 1845. Discoveries in Australia 1846. Manual of Scientific Enquiry 1849. Living Cirripedia (Barnacles) A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. 1851 [=1852]. Fossil Cirripedia 1851. Huxley Testimonials 1851. Letter on the bookselling question 1852. Testimonials of Adam White 1865. On the Origin of Species Online variorum edition 1859. Query to Army Surgeons 1862. Fertilisation of Orchids 1862. Memoir of Professor Henslow 1862. An appeal [Darwin, Emma and Darwin, C. 1865. Related:  Evolution

Understanding Evolution The bacteria that changed the world - May, 2017 The make-up of Earth's atmosphere, once the domain of Earth science textbooks, has become an increasingly "hot" news topic in recent decades, as we struggle to curb global warming by limiting the carbon dioxide that human activity produces. While the changes that humanity has wrought on the planet are dramatic, this isn’t the first time that one species has changed Earth’s atmosphere. Three billion years ago, there was no free oxygen in the atmosphere at all. Life was anaerobic, meaning that it did not need oxygen to live and grow. Read the rest of the story here | See the Evo in the News archive

Organic Consumers Association Connext | Connecting Next Talents in Media Art I - LES NIVEAUX DE LA SELECTION : de la molécule à l’individu - Le Cactus Heuristique L’histoire de la sélection naturelle Charles Darwin (photo à gauche) défini la notion de sélection naturelle comme la « préservation des variations favorables dans la lutte pour la vie, et le rejet des variations préjudiciables ». Le concept de sélection naturelle postule un tri de certains caractères biologiques au cours des générations, qui découle du fait que les porteurs de ces caractères se reproduisent mieux que les membres de la population qui en sont dépourvus. Pour induire la sélection d'un caractère biologique particulier dans une population, il faut que ce caractère varie d'un individu à l'autre, que cette variation individuelle soit héritable, et que cette variation soit corrélée à celle du succès reproducteur de ses porteurs. A partir des connaissances acquises sur l’hérédité, la sélection naturelle a ensuite été divisée en 3 modes d’action agissant sur la distribution des phénotypes dans une population: Pourtant, en 1945, le biologiste suédois G. S.J. En 1980, L. Les gènes

List of Endangered Species at Bagheera There are now 41,415 species on the IUCN Red List, and 16,306 of them are endangered species threatened with extinction. This is up from 16,118 last year. This includes both endangered animals and endangered plants. The species endangered include one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70% of the world’s assessed plants on the 2007 IUCN Red List are in jeopardy of extinction. The total number of extinct species has reached 785 and a further 65 are only found in captivity or in cultivation. In the last 500 years, human activity has forced over 800 species into extinction. The current rate of extinction appears to be hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of times higher than the background rate. Extinctions are a natural part of evolutionary processes, but through most of the history of life on Earth, biological diversity has been increasing.

The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of Every year, the online magazine Edge--the so-called smartest website in the world, helmed by science impresario John Brockman--asks top scientists, technologists, writers, and academics to weigh in on a single question. This year, that query was "What Should We Be Worried About?", and the idea was to identify new problems arising in science, tech, and culture that haven't yet been widely recognized. This year's respondents include former presidents of the Royal Society, Nobel prize-winners, famous sci-fi authors, Nassem Nicholas Taleb, Brian Eno, and a bunch of top theoretical physicists, psychologists, and biologists. And the list is long. What keeps the smartest folks in the world awake at night? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. image 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. image 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. image 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72.

Charles Darwin - Le voyage d'un naturaliste autour du monde- CNRS sagascience - Tous les textes du site Tous les textes du site Plan du site Crédits Accueil - Voir l'animation ETAPE 1 27 décembre 1831 Plymouth, côte sud-ouest de l’Angleterre. ETAPE 2 Du 27 décembre 1831 au 28 février 1832 Darwin démarre l’aventure par un terrible mal de mer tandis que le Beagle fait route sur Bahia au Brésil. ETAPE 3 Du 28 février au 5 juillet 1832 A son arrivée à Bahia, Darwin est d’emblée subjugué par la luxuriance de la forêt brésilienne. ETAPE 4 Du 5 juillet au 27 novembre 1832 Marsouins, phoques, manchots et feux d’artifice naturels ponctuent le trajet du Beagle entre Rio de Janeiro et Montevideo. ETAPE 5 Du 27 novembre 1832 au 26 avril 1833 Depuis le 27 novembre 1832, le navire fait route vers la Terre de Feu, à la pointe sud du continent américain. ETAPE 6 Du 26 avril au 6 décembre 1833 Après plusieurs mois d’aventure entre la Terre de Feu et les îles Falkland, le Beagle rejoint Montevideo le 26 avril. ETAPE 8 Du 10 juin 1834 au 4 février 1835 ETAPE 13 Du 31 mai au 2 octobre 1836

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