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Exploring the Life and Legacy of Charles Darwin

This quiz explores key aspects of Charles Darwin's life, his contributions to science, and his legacy in the field of natural history.

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1 Where does Charles Darwin live?

2 [18] Darwin was rather bored by Robert Jameson's natural history course which covered ________ including the debate between Neptunism and Plutonism.

3 What proceeded The Great Exhibition?

4 Continuing his research in London, Darwin's wide reading now included the sixth edition of Malthus's ________

5 ________ has become an annual celebration, and in 2009 worldwide events were arranged for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

6 In the ________ he mentioned the Fuegians and Edmonstone when arguing against "ranking the so-called races of man as distinct species".

7 He was the grandson of ________ on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side.

8 Where did Charles Darwin die?

9 What college did Charles Darwin attend?

10 He thought men's eminence over women was the outcome of sexual selection, a view disputed by ________ in The Sexes Throughout Nature.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin.
  • John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish.
  • HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America, but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist.
  • Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • William A. F. Browne, a radical student who proposed Charles Darwin for the Plinian Society, became a psychiatrist and pioneered art therapy.
  • The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Charles Darwin's first published theory, explains how coral atolls (example pictured) form.
  • the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour.
  • in her 1875 book The Sexes Throughout Nature, Antoinette Brown Blackwell (pictured) critiqued the androcentricity expressed by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
  • in Fertilisation of Orchids, Charles Darwin showed how beautiful orchids (example pictured) evolved through natural selection for insect pollination.
  • in 1831 young Charles Darwin met William Snow Harris ("Thunder-and-Lightning Harris") whose experimental lightning conductor had just been fitted to HMS Beagle (pictured).
  • Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle.
  • science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry.
  • Charles Darwin was a friend of his local vicar, the Reverend John Brodie-Innes.
  • Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants.
  • Charles Darwin joined the Plinian Society student naturalists' club at Edinburgh University.
  • Charles Darwin frequently visited Osmaston Hall in Derby, England.
  • Charles Darwin's 1875 book Insectivorous Plants describes how he tried to feed meat and glass to carnivorous plants to get them to bite.
  • Charles Darwin's final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms.
  • Herbert Spencer, secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's idea of evolution.
  • Discovery Channel called Ardi, "The evidence that Darwin could only have dreamed of".
  • Charles Kingsley's Great Hippocampus Question satirised debate on ape origins following Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species (satirical image pictured) .
  • Charles Darwin conducted a psychological study of his son William Erasmus Darwin where he compared the child to orangutan babies.
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