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Naturalista y biólogo inglés (1809–1882)
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“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.”
“Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God.”
“To my mind there are no advantages and many disadvantages in lectures compared with reading.”
“Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead. — respect.”
“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”
“I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.”
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Charles Robert Darwin fue un naturalista, geólogo y biólogo inglés, ampliamente conocido por sus contribuciones a la biología evolutiva. Su proposición de que todas las especies de vida han descendido de un ancestro común es ahora generalmente aceptada y considerada un concepto científico fundamental. En una presentación conjunta con Alfred Russel Wallace, introdujo su teoría científica de que este patrón de ramificación de la evolución resultó de un proceso que llamó selección natural, en el cual la lucha por la existencia tiene un efecto similar a la selección artificial involucrada en la cría selectiva. Darwin ha sido descrito como una de las figuras más influyentes en la historia humana y fue honrado con su entierro en la Abadía de Westminster.
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