{"id":3074,"date":"2023-02-12T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2023-02-09T14:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:05:18","slug":"charles-darwin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2023\/02\/12\/charles-darwin-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Darwin Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #808080\">Charles Darwin Day<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">What an adventure! Virgin jungles, unclimbed mountains, teeming oceans, tropical rainforests, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes \u2013 Charles Darwin saw it all on his five-year voyage around South America. And all the time the young gentleman naturalist was exploring the pristine wildernesses and the unexplored islands, he was taking assiduous notes, writing up his observations more than 20 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Nothing escaped his notice: the flatworms, spiders, and parasitic ichneumon wasps fascinated him every bit as much as the giant tortoises and the massive bones of extinct beasts that he strapped to his horse and hauled back to his study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">He explored, observed and thought about it all. The primaeval world in all its glory and grotesqueness was laid out before him. By the end of his trip, he\u2019d written a 770-page diary, 1,750 pages of notes, and collected nearly 5,500 skins, bones and carcasses. But it wasn\u2019t only the natural world that impressed itself upon Darwin\u2019s consciousness. He saw naked poverty and the horrors of slavery and genocide up close and personal. He realised, once and for all, that nature \u2013 including every manifestation of human behaviour \u2013 was not the result of a benign creator but rather a long journey through adaptation and evolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080\">Natural Selection<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">No wonder he blew apart the received wisdom on the origins of creation when he published his \u201cOn the origin of species by means of natural selection\u201d in 1859. It sold out immediately and rocked the scientific and religious communities to their very foundations. Those reverberations are still being felt today. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Something that is perhaps unknown is that Darwin had a strong connection to Edinburgh. It was while studying medicine at Edinburgh University that Darwin learned how to classify plants, stuff birds and identify rock strata and colonial floral and fauna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">It\u2019s Darwin\u2019s birthday today. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 12<sup>th<\/sup> February 1809.\u00a0 Why not celebrate by reading all about him and his works. (I\u2019ll be honest \u2013 I\u2019m starting with \u201cDarwin for beginners\u201d.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">By Lesley McRob<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Sources and further reading\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Photo by<\/span> <a class=\"N2odk RZQOk eziW_ cl4O9 KHq0c\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/14HNtFPbKbs\">Misael Moreno<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Further reading available on<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/napier.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?query=any,contains,charles%20darwin&amp;tab=Everything&amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;vid=44NAP_INST:44NAP_ALMA_VU1&amp;offset=0\">LibrarySearch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Read our blog post on another Victorian trailblazer names Charles:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2023\/02\/07\/charles-dickens-birthday\/\">Charles Dickens\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Darwin Day What an adventure! 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