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Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

Paul Van Helvert; John Van Wyhe

World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
2021
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'This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'The Quarterly Review of Biology This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts including very many unknown to even the most ardent Darwin aficionados. It includes hundreds of new discoveries and corrections to the existing literature. It provides the most complete summaries of his publications, manuscripts, lifetime itinerary, finances, personal library, friends and colleagues, opponents, visitors to his home, anniversaries, hundreds of flora, fauna, monuments and places named after him and a host of other topics. Also included are the most complete lists (iconographies) ever created of illustrations of the Beagle, over 1000 portraits of Darwin, his wife and home as well as all known Darwin photographs, stamps and caricatures. The book is richly illustrated with 350 images, most previously unknown.
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Darwin's Universe - From Nothing, By Nothing, For Nothing - Survival for Nothing

Darwin's Universe - From Nothing, By Nothing, For Nothing - Survival for Nothing

Yan T Wee

Yan T Wee
2021
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Darwinists hope to bury God in an avalanche of a causeless universe and a godless evolution. But instead of liberating us, they plunge us into a cosmic depression. We are reduced to: From Nothing, By Nothing, For Nothing - an accidental leftover from the Big Bang, evolved by a lucky chance, and are here for no ultimate purpose. We are just walking molecules, birthed through a cosmic accident, dancing to the music of our DNA, and destined to disappear in a cosmic blink - nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. And when we look to science and evolution for answers, all we get is a blank look. Life has no real purpose dude - it is about the survival of the genes in us - feeding, fending, fleeting and fathering - just live through it and get it over. Our final destination is the hole in the ground. But is it true? Perhaps we are: From Someone, By Someone, For Someone. Perhaps there is an unexplored and awesome universe beyond the Darwinian world of survival for nothing. Science encourages us to think critically and let us place Darwinism in the crosshairs and examine it in the light of empirical science - is it observable, falsifiable and repeatable? If not, it is not experimental science. And, as we shall see, Darwinism is an unobservable and unreproducible pseudo-science. This book will walk us through cosmology, biology, philosophy and end with theology, the queen of the sciences. Empirical science buries Darwinism and resurrects Creationism. We are more than cosmic orphans lost in an accidental, uncaring and dying Universe; we are living souls, made in the image of God, and designed to have a wonderful relationship with an awesome Creator. Yan T Wee, the founding Pastor of Shalom Baptist Church, Singapore, writes from his fascinating research into the latest skirmish between speculative Darwinism and deducible Creationism. He concludes that Darwinism, when viewed in its entirety, is not only disingenuous, but a guaranteed, one-way ticket into the universe of ultimate meaninglessness and despair.
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Darwin, evolution, evolutionisms

Darwin, evolution, evolutionisms

Ana Leonor Pereira

Imprensa Da Universidade de Coimbra
2011
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H 150 anos, mais precisamente em 24 de novembro de 1859, Darwin deu a conhecer um novo paradigma da hist ria natural atrav s da publica o A Origem das Esp cies. Como a epistemologia j constatou, a teoria darwiniana da descend ncia com modifica es ou teoria da selec o natural levou cerca de 20 anos a ser constru da, ou seja, entre 1837 e 1859, grosso modo. Os 150 anos de hist ria do darwinismo e da evolu o apresentam a fecundidade da teoria da selec o natural, tanto no plano das ci ncias da vida e do homem como no plano das culturas. Tal como em quase todo o mundo, tamb m em Portugal a rece o de Darwin iniciou-se nos anos 60 do s culo XIX, apresentando novidades surpreendentes, atendendo escala portuguesa. Em 2009 o Grupo de Hist ria e Sociologia da Ci ncia do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do S culo XX da Universidade de Coimbra organizou o Encontro Internacional "Darwin, Darwinismos, Evolu o (1859-2009)". Esta reuni o cient fica pretendeu ser um espa o de discuss o aberto a todos os interessados neste tema, tanto no plano nacional como internacional. Os textos agora publicados constituem uma colet nea de muitos textos ampliados e que serviram de base s comunica es apresentadas.
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Darwin and the Tree of Life

Darwin and the Tree of Life

Viana Eriksson

Viana Eriksson
2019
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Young Charles would spend ages outside at every opportunity, studying nature and observing animals, plants and any other wonders he could find hidden away. He would lose himself for hours in the great outdoors, taking in all the details of the natural world around him. Being outdoors was his very favourite thing "Don't worry, Dad. I'll find a way to help the world", young Charles used to tell his father - and unquestionably he did With his Theory of Evolution by natural selection, Darwin becomes one of the greatest biologists and most influential figures in human history.Two hundred years later, we can explain who we are and understand where we come from, thanks to the priceless knowledge that Charles Darwin gave to the world through his research and books.
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Darwin

Darwin

Tess Lea

NewSouth Publishing
2020
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Darwin is a survivor, you have to give it that. Razed to the ground four times in its short history, it has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow. Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To know Darwin, to know its soul, you have to listen to it, soak in it, taste it. This is a book about the textures, colours, sounds and frontier stories of Darwin, Australia’s smallest and least-known capital city. It is a place that has to be felt to be known. Readers will sense the heat, the birds, the frogs, the mosquitoes, the architecture and the logistical infrastructure that keep the moon-base that is Darwin alive. They will learn the glory of swimming amongst pandanus fronds dipping into fresh tropical waters, take in the snaking wetland topography from a bird’s eye view, and learn about the swamps and mangroves from the perspective of ancient tidal powers and the entomologists charged with keeping the mosquito populations down. They will also meet some colourful local characters, the type that lend Darwin its vitality. It starts with the screech of a roof being peeled aloft and the sudden vista of torn sky, savage rain and missile ribbons of corrugated iron hurtling above my little girl head. It is this, the uncanny howl of shredding worlds, which most people remember about Cyclone Tracy. The main purpose of this book is to give Australian and other readers an unflinching sense of the geo-strategic significance of Darwin and what it is founded on, without losing the whimsy and beauty that so deeply attracts and binds the loyalty of its residents. If Darwin is a sentinel city, then this is a sentinel book. A new Postscript suggests how Darwin might deliver lessons for living under the climatically assaulting and culturally uncomfortable times of the Anthropocene Gives an unflinching sense of the geo-strategic significance of Darwin and what it is founded on Lea calls Darwin a ‘garrison town in sleeper guise’ and ‘a node in America’s global military arsenal’; her account of Darwin’s militarisation in some ways makes Darwin more nationally – and even internationally – relevant than any other book in the City Series
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Darwin's Solution: The Impact Of Evolutionary Thinking On Medicine And Biotechnology

Darwin's Solution: The Impact Of Evolutionary Thinking On Medicine And Biotechnology

Animesh Ray

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD
2026
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The book reveals how a 19th century idea of Charles Darwin transformed modern science — enabling targeted cancer chemotherapy, gene editing with CRISPR, enzyme design with AI, and many more.Part I offers a highly accessible introduction to Darwinian evolution's central ideas, framed through medical puzzles and everyday observations. In Part II, the narrative deepens into the molecular logic of disease, drawing on real-world examples, interviews with physician-scientists, and the author's personal reflections to connect Darwin's ideas with today's biomedical innovations. Part III invites the curious reader to explore the quantitative framework that underlies this evolutionary lens, uncovering the elegant math behind mutation, selection, and fitness. The book concludes with a bold inquiry into the ethical, economic, and societal implications of evolution in the age of biotechnology.Written for students, educators, and curious minds alike, this book is ideal for anyone exploring a future in medicine, biology, or biotechnology — and for all who wonder how an old theory of life continues to shape its newest frontiers.
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Darwin's Radio

Darwin's Radio

Greg Bear

Ballantine Books
2000
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A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps --the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve--an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.
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Darren, Andrew and Mrs Hall

Darren, Andrew and Mrs Hall

R.J. Gould

Vinci Books
2026
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A tale of two husbands, two wives, and the woman in between. It is a June day and the rain is lashing down as Emma and Andrew move into the house of their dreams in an affluent London suburb. Two doors down, a dejected Darren and Kelly are downsizing into their new home. The women are hitting it off straightaway whereas Andrew, a teacher and poet, and Darren, an alarm systems installer, are at loggerheads from the word go. When Emma and Kelly decide to take breaks away together – to a spa, a countryside retreat, the Scottish Highlands – their men feel abandoned. Their animosity reaches boiling point, with loyalty to their wives fully tested when Mrs Hall moves in as their in-between neighbour. But who exactly is this woman and what game is she playing? The wives return from a stay in Scotland to discover that a lot has changed and things can never be the same again. Are their marriages robust enough to survive? [This stand-alone novel is part of the ‘at the Dream Café’ series] What the book reviewers say about Darren, Andrew and Mrs Hall “A wonderful read that draws you into the characters’ worlds immediately. You feel as if you live on the street with them and are watching it all unfold.” TBHonest “A brilliant story that hooked me, rich and vividly told.” Beyond the Books "A look at how relationships change, told in a sensitive and realistic way with humour and thoughtfulness." EmmabBooks "Another insightful and entertaining read from an author who is fast becoming a firm favourite." Lilac Mills, Author “I enjoyed the focus on real-life issues that are often present in relationships and go unsaid.” Chic Lit Central “Highly recommended if you are after a character-driven, light and humorous story.” Webreakforbooks
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