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1 EEB464 Fall 2015 Brian O’Meara Darwin NOVA: Darwin’s Darkest Hour

1809 (age 8): Mother died 1825 (age 16): Summer as an apprentice as a doctor with his father 1825 (age 16): Starts at University of Edinburgh Med School 1825 (age 16): Begins learning taxonomy from John Edmonstone (a freed slave)

(age 16-18): Darwin does poorly in med school 1828 (age 18): Goes to Christ’s College, Cambridge for a Bachelor’s, with plan to become a clergyman 1827 (age 18): Darwin pulled from med school by his father 1828 (age 19): Becomes friendly with John Henslow, a botany professor. Becomes more deeply interested in natural history

1831 (age 22): Begins learning geology from prof. Adam Sedgwick 1831 (age 22): Graduates (places 10/178 graduates). Plans to visit Tenerife (age 22): Tenerife plans fall through when his friend dies.

1831 (age 22): Darwin invited to be naturalist (and captain’s companion) on 2-yr (turns into 5-yr) surveying voyage

7 BBC Galapagos

1831 (age 22): Begins Beagle voyage. FitzRoy gives him Vol 1 of Lyell’s Principles of Geology 1836 (age 27): Ends Beagle voyage 1837 (age 28): Seriously thinking about evolution 1839 (age 29): Marries cousin Emma Wedgwood. Given money by parents allowing them to live quite comfortably off investment income (age 30): Darwin’s book on the Beagle voyages appears

(ages 28-50): Darwin refines ideas about evolution, gathers evidence (letters to breeders, naturalists, etc.; raising pigeons; work on barnacles; many experiments) 1847 (age 39): Book on coral reefs published

Barrier/Atoll reefs Fringing reefs

1858 (age 50): Darwin receives letter from Wallace asking him to communicate Wallace’s essay on “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type” (age 50): Darwin and Wallace writings read at meeting of Linnean Society in London

1859 (age 51): Origin of Species published and becomes best-seller : Darwin writes other books on insectivorous plants, human evolution, expression of emotions, orchids, and earthworms 1882 (age 73): Darwin dies. Popular and elite pressure leads to him being buried in Westminster Abbey, 20 feet from Isaac Newton

■Every species is fertile enough that if all offspring survived to reproduce the population would grow (fact). ■Despite periodic fluctuations, populations remain roughly the same size (fact). ■Resources such as food are limited and are relatively stable over time (fact). ■A struggle for survival ensues (inference). ■Individuals in a population vary significantly from one another (fact). ■Much of this variation is heritable (fact) ■Individuals less suited to the environment are less likely to survive and less likely to reproduce; individuals more suited to the environment are more likely to survive and more likely to reproduce and leave their inheritable traits to future generations, which produces the process of natural selection (inference). ■This slowly results in populations changing to adapt to their environments, and ultimately, these variations accumulate over time to form new species (inference). Summary of Origin (adapted from Wikipedia)

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. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Origin of Species, first edition