Synonyms:
Darwin, Charles_Darwin, Charles_Robert_Darwin
Meaning: English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
Usage examples
Steered in for Mt. Darwin to visit rock.
But the two great apostles of the evolution theory were Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
This tallies with the description given by Mr. Darwin of the Malayan and also the Siamese cats.
In 1877, an eminent French Catholic physician, Dr. Constantin James, published an elaborate answer to Darwin's book.
Half way in the march the land showed up splendidly, and I decided to make straight for Mt. Darwin, which we are rounding.
We went straight for Mt. Darwin, but in half an hour found ourselves amongst huge open chasms, unbridged, but not very deep, I think.
Critics have discovered mistakes in Darwin and Haeckel, but are these mistakes of such a nature as to prove fatal to the theory of evolution?
Darwin says that we ought not to expect any closer similarity between the organic beings on the opposite sides of the Andes than on the opposite shores of the ocean.
Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" is to me the best book of the kind ever written; it is one of those classics which decline to go into artificial categories, and which stand by themselves; and yet Darwin, with his usual modesty, spoke of it as in effect a yachting voyage.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Evolution, License CC BY-SA 4.0