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El viatge del Beagle

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Amb només 22 anys, Charles Darwin s’embarca com a naturalista a l’H.M.S. Beagle, un vaixell capitanejat per Robert FitzRoy que tenia la missió de cartografiar la part austral de l’Amèrica del Sud i realitzar algunes mesures cronomètriques al voltant del món. Aquest llibre el va escriure Darwin un cop arribat a Anglaterra a partir de les anotacions al seu diari, i narra el viatge de gairebé cinc anys circumnavegant el món del jove científic. Darwin descriu amb detall llocs com la Patagònia, la Terra del Foc, les illes Galàpagos o Tahití, i retrata la gent i les aventures que hi trobà, a la vegada que posa de manifest tant la seva passió per la naturalesa com una extraordinària capacitat per treure conclusions i elaborar teories a partir de només uns dies d’observació. El viatge del Beagle fou transcendental per a la concepció moderna del món, perquè fruit d’aquella expedició Darwin elaboraria, uns anys més tard, la teoria de la selecció natural que va revolucionar l’ordre científic i va sacsejar els fonaments de les explicacions creacionistes sobre l’origen de la vida.

760 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1839

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Charles Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).

Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.

Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.

His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.

A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.

(Arabic: تشارلز داروين)

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