#originofspecies — Public Fediverse posts

"What set of circumstances favored an animal that weighs up to 600 pounds, moves at four miles a day, and takes a quarter of a century to reach sexual maturity?" —Helen Lewis for The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/?src=longreads

#longreads #darwin #evolution #originofspecies #reading #writing

Darwin and Wallace's original papers to the Linnean Society (published 1858) are fascinating reads, showing how they each developed the concept of natural selection. The foreword by Lyell and Hooker makes clear that Darwin was very reluctant to publish!

Both mention artificial selection, but Wallace uses the tendency of domesticated animals to "return to type" in the wild - seen at the time as some sort of stabilising force against change - to bolster the idea of natural selection.

On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 3:45-62, 1858-9
https://archive.org/details/darwin-wallace-1858-journalofproceed-00linn/mode/1up?view=theater

#NaturalSelection #OriginOfSpecies #CharlesDarwin #AlfredRusselWallace #LinneanSociety #EvolutionaryBiology #TheoryOfEvolution

Da ja hier nur weltfremde Nerds sind 😉 , mal eine weltfremde, nerdige Frage: welche Ausgabe von Darwins "Die Entstehung der Arten" ist die beste für einen normalen™ Leser, der oder die das einfach mal gelesen haben will.
Auf deutsch und bitte eine kommentierte Ausgabe. Ich habe das hier bei Wiley-VCH gefunden:
https://www.wiley-vch.de/de?option=com_eshop&view=product&isbn=9783527333608&title=Charles%20Darwin%3A%20Die%20Entstehung%20der%20Arten
Aber gibt es eventuell eine bessere, neuere, besser übersetzte, vielleicht etwas bahn-kompatiblere, d.h. kompaktere Ausgabe? Empfehlungen?
#Darwin #OriginofSpecies

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Eugene McCarthy is going to be very happy to hear hybrids finally becoming a permissible topic for polite company! Gene claims perhaps half of bird species are hybrids, and possibly one rather troublesome primate…

http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html

#evolution #originofspecies #natureismessy #unhemmedasitisuneven

TIL; Forbes’ Quarry skull, the first adult Neanderthal found in 1848 on Gibraltar. Presented to Gibraltar Scientific Society in March. Reached Britain in 1864; Charles Darwin examined it. Predated Neander Valley discovery by 8 years. Also known as Gibraltar 1.

#anthropology #science #evolution #originofspecies #paleontology #paleoanthropology #Humanevolution

The 4 Billion Year Path of Human #Evolution

👉 From the tiniest protocells to modern #humans, our species has undergone a remarkable journey of adaptation, innovation, and survival.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/path-of-human-evolution/

#evolutiontheory #biology #originofspecies

Charles Darwin has left British bank notes but he's still very readable in the history of evolutionary biology. #charlesdarwin #Evolution #originofspecies #BankOfEngland

University of Cambridge has published all of #evolution scientist #CharlesDarwin's surviving correspondence The searchable collection covers over 15,000 letters from 1822-1882, from his time aboard #HMSBeagle to #OriginOfSpecies and end-of-life reflections https://bit.ly/3VfWCkW

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In honor of #Darwin & the anniversary of the publication of #OriginOfSpecies, a favorite quote:

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us."