charles_darwin

Index
The Descent of Man, 4; delay in
completion, 33; on human
origins, 84; purpose of, 73, 88;
relationship to The Origin of
Species, 1, 37, 38; sexual
selection in, 8
De Vries, Hugo, 8, 9–10, 11, 72;
Species and Varieties, 89
DNA, 78
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 12;
Genetics and the Origin of
Species, 82
Draper, John William, 69
Edmonstone, John, 20
Eimer, Theodor, 71
Einstein, Albert, 85
Empedocles, 44
Entomological Society of London, 5
Environmentalism, 91
Eugenics Movement, 85, 90
Evolution: Ancient Greeks’ view
of, 2, 44; chemical, 84;
contemporary, 7; Darwin’s
contribution to, 1, 6, 56, 57, 64,
65, 84, 92; impact on
nineteenth- and twentiethcentury
thought, 74, 79; impact
on contemporary culture, 87–88,
89; impact on contemporary
thought, 10–11; public
acceptance of, 73, 74;
relationship to natural selection, 4
The Expression of the Emotions in
Man and Animals, 31, 38
Extinction, 43, 47
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, The
Genetical Theory of Natural
Selection, 82
FitzRoy, Robert, 69; Captain of
HMS Beagle, 5, 23, 24, 25, 26
Fixity of the species, 2, 3, 43,
44–45, 57, 65
Forbes, Edward, 49
The Formation of Vegetable Mould,
57; delay in completion, 33
Fossil Record, 9, 47, 83
Fossils, 9, 43–44, 47; ‘‘Lucy’’
fossil, 84
Fox, William Darwin (cousin), 22
Franklin, Rosalind, 85
Freud, Sigmund, 92
Fries, Magnus, Sveriges €Atliga och
Giftiga Svamper, 54
Fundamentalism, Christian, 79, 80
Galapagos Islands, 27, 49
Galton, Francis (cousin), 39
Gamow, Georgy, 62
G€artner, Karl Friedrich von, 50, 65
Genetics, 72, 77, 78; relationship
to evolution, 82–83
Genome, human, 90
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 5,
47, 49
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore,
49, 92, 96–97
Geological Society of London, 5,
28, 50
Germ plasm theory, 71
Gilbert, Davies, 3
Gould, John, 27, 50
Gould, Stephen Jay, 82
Grant, Robert, 20
Gray, Asa, 5, 35, 37, 49, 62, 67,
92, 97–98
Grece, Claire, 2
Haeckel, Ernst, 37, 57, 92
Haldane, J. B. S., 82
Harvey, William, 62, 89
Henslow, John Stevens, 22, 23, 24,
26, 27
Herschel, John, 22
Hominids, 83
Homology, 49
Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 31, 33, 34,
35, 36, 37, 39, 48, 49, 69, 98–99
189