Darwin, Charles Robert

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) begins his historic voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836). His observations during the voyage lead to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. 

Hancock s (1977, p. 12) discussion of chronometry drew attention to Oppel s careful, precise rock-layer measurements and fossil collecting in establishing a method by which the record of irreversible evolution of life on earth could be documented. Hancock (1977, p. 12) pointed out that Oppel s complete work was published in the same year that Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Robert Darwin read their joint paper to the Linnean Society of London, On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties, and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection. Hancock (1977, p. 12) commented that Oppel himself remarked that the more accurately the fossils are examined and species defined, the greater the number of zonal divisions that could be recognized. ... 

Charles Galton Darwin (1887-1962) was a British physicist and mathematidan, professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the grandson of the famed evolutionist Sir Charles Robert Darwin. Darwin investigated the scattering of a particles on atoms. Courtesy of Dr. R.C. McGuiness, National Physical Laboratory, UK. 

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 to 19 April 1882) English biologist, naturalist, evolutionist... 

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