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Charles Darwin: voyaging
As Irvine Loudon has remarked, many Georgian doctors made more money from their non-medical activities than from medicine. In Robert Darwin's case, it was from the changing world of canals, roads and loans for capital enterprises. It was not until his second year at the University of Edinburgh that Charles Darwin became aware that his father was rich and that he need not depend upon medicine fo...
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C harles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 (the same day as President Abraham Lincoln). In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1), his most important book and the one by which he has become best known to posterity. Thus, 2009 is a double anniversary: the 200th of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentenary of Origin. Darwin is deservedly credited a...
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عنوان ژورنال: TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1884-7080,1342-3363
DOI: 10.5363/tits.15.3_7