Works Of Charles Darwin: The Power Of Movement In Plants

by Charles Darwin

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Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Biology, Plants, Nature

460 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1880

About the author

Charles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).

Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.

Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.

His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.

A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.

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Reviews

[Drew · Rating 2 out of 5]

I heart Darwin. I do. I knew going in that this was going to be a dry and tough read, but the book has personal meaning to me so I thought I could do it. I can't. Life's too short to read this one in full.

[Daniel Duarte · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are classic experiments about phototropism. A fascinating view of a scientific mind at work. Elegant reasoning, curiosity and creativity. The next big advance in the field came almost a century after, with molecular biology and genetics.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shellac. Lamp blacking. Olive oil. Pins (various). Glass fibers. Darwin's classic examination of plant movements (or "circumnutation") in response to such stimuli as light, gravity, temperature, and moisture, also offers a nostalgic look back at the nineteenth-century beginnings of modern plant science. Darwin's findings challenged the traditional distinction between plants and animals, a distinction that had more or less endured since Aristotle authored it. Darwin compares cotyledons arching in order to break through the ground to a man arching his back in order to lift a heavy load of hay; he asserts that plants' tips above-ground are equivalent to animal eyes, and that their root-tips are cognitive centers. A somewhat tedious read if one concentrates on the details of how Trifolium circumnutates differently from Mimosa, but the plant movement "maps" are fascinating.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of raw data that demonstrates Darwin ' s meticulous nature. The summaries of the data are the more interesting and readable parts of the book. The descriptions of his experimental methods are also very interesting.

[Doreen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting insight into plant psychology

[Rin]

Cool. Nothing to really say about it. It's plant physiology from a long time ago, pretty much.

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