work of Charles Darwin from Orchids to Variation continued with research and experimentation on evolution, carrying out tedious work to provide evidence...
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took the Darwin family to a spot above the quiet Cudham valley, teeming with orchids including Cephalanthera, Neottia, fly orchids and musk orchids. They...
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Darwin from Orchids to Variation List of works by Charles Darwin Domestication syndrome Darwin 1887, pp. 84–85 Vol. 1 Stauffer 1975, pp. 1–14 Darwin 1859...
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JSTOR 4331610. S2CID 55795712. Beatty, John (2006-12-01). "Chance Variation: Darwin on Orchids". Philosophy of Science. 73 (5): 629–641. doi:10.1086/518332...
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Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood, 3 January 1765 – 15 July 1817) was the wife of Robert Darwin, a wealthy doctor, and mother of naturalist Charles Darwin, and...
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was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family. Darwin was born in Lichfield, the son of physician Erasmus Darwin and his first wife, Mary Howard...
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Between 1873 and 1882, the life and work of Charles Darwin from Insectivorous Plants to Worms continued with investigations into carnivorous and climbing...
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Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022. Endersby, Jim (June 2016). "Deceived by orchids: sex, science, fiction and Darwin". The...
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Charles Darwin. 1829–1832. [Records of captured insects, in] Stephens, J. F., Illustrations of British entomology 1835: Extracts from Letters to Henslow...
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Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on...
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Sir Horace Darwin, KBE FRS (13 May 1851 – 22 September 1928) was an English engineer specializing in the design and manufacture of precision scientific...
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on Darwin and his new look contributed to a trend in which all forms of evolutionism were identified with Darwinism. Darwin from Orchids to Variation, Darwin's...
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of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. Darwin used the word "descent" to mean lineal descendant of ancestors...
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Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) (Spanish: Estación Científica Charles Darwin, ECCD) is a biological research station in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz...
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reaction to Darwin's theory his earlier work included demonstrating the utility of the flowers of Orchids in directing insect pollination to achieve cross...
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On the Origin of Species (category Books by Charles Darwin)
different from, those to which the parent-species have been exposed under nature. It can be seen here that Darwin attributes the greater variation amongst...
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aid to understanding flower morphology and evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521493468 Darwin, Charles (1868). The Variation of...
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Darwin observed that orchids and insects have a close relationship that allows the pollination of the plants. He noted that orchids have a variety of structures...
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Angraecum sesquipedale (redirect from Darwin's orchid)
as Darwin's orchid, Christmas orchid, Star of Bethlehem orchid, and king of the angraecums, is an epiphytic orchid in the genus Angraecum endemic to Madagascar...
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Pelorism (category Use dmy dates from December 2017)
Pelorism is the term, said to be first used by Charles Darwin, for the formation of 'peloric flowers' which botanically is the abnormal production of radially...
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Josiah Wedgwood (category Darwin–Wedgwood family)
the design from that society. Wedgwood was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, and he was the grandfather of Charles and Emma Darwin. There were...
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PMID 17554306. S2CID 4412955. Darwin, Charles R. (1862). On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilized by Insects, facsimile...
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strategies co-evolved with insects. In the book, Darwin wonders why some orchids apparently mimic bees, and how orchids without nectar succeed in attracting pollinators...
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Hammarbya (redirect from Bog adder's-mouth orchid)
Stewart (1978) Native Orchids of North America north of Mexico, Stanford University Press, Stanford. Smith, Welby R. (1993) Orchids of Minnesota, University...
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Saltation (biology) (category Articles with dead external links from May 2018)
single-step speciation. This was historically offered as an alternative to Darwinism. Some forms of mutationism were effectively saltationist, implying large...
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Ken Thompson (botanist) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Insectivorous Plants, On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, Good Effects of Intercrossing, and the Effects...
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Flower (redirect from Transition to flowering)
pollinators. Many orchids, for example, produce flowers resembling female bees or wasps in color, shape, and scent. Males move from one flower to the next in...
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Ernst Mayr (category Charles Darwin biographers)
biological species concept. Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor, the mechanism by...
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Ichneumonidae (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from March 2016)
Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera...
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1871 in art (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
April 11 – Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter (died 1956) May ? – Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, Irish-born engraver and portrait painter (died 1954) May 1...
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