Charles Darwin

Person · Open Library

Born

12 February 1809

Died

19 April 1882

Works

1971

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1809

Active to

1882

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Listeners

1,341

Total plays

37,555

Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Darwin">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

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3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

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4. Array programming with NumPy

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5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

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Quotes

• “The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd.—It is a curious little world within itself; the habitable part is surrounded by a broad band of black desolate rocks, as if the wide barrier of the ocean was not sufficient to guard the precious spot.”
• “Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.”
• “Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.”
• “[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.”
• “… cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm.”
• “I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.”

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Wikidata facts

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Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1868.jpg

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