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Charles Darwin
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Earth-worms abound in England in many different stations.
— Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 9.
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
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Lived 1809–1882, aged 73United Kingdom
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He turned a five-year sail around the world into the idea that binds all biology: every living thing shares an ancestor, shaped by the ruthless edit of natural selection. The theory rattled Victorian England and still draws more search traffic than most scientists get in death.
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Charles Robert Darwin ditched medical school at Edinburgh to poke at marine invertebrates, then landed a berth on HMS Beagle in 1831 for what became a five-year voyage that made him a geologist of note. Puzzled by the fossils and living creatures he'd catalogued across continents, he began sketching a theory of natural selection by 1838 but sat on it for two decades, buried in barnacle taxonomy and coral-reef monographs that won him the Royal Medal in 1853. When Alfred Russel Wallace mailed him an essay describing the same mechanism in 1858, both men rushed their work to the Linnean Society; D…
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Charles Darwin
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M. Perrier found that their exposure to the dry air of a room for only a single night was fatal to them.
— Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, pp. 12-13.
Charles Darwin
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When a worm is suddenly illuminated and dashes like a rabbit into its burrow—to use the expression employed by a friend—we are at first led to look at the action as a reflex one.
— Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 23.
Charles Darwin
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It may be presumed that all animals which feed on various substances possess the sense of taste, and this is certainly the case with worms.
— Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 32.
Charles Darwin
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These [calciferous] glands (see Fig. 1), judging from their size and from their rich supply of blood-vessels, must be of much importance to the animal.
— Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 43.
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