'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin'On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings ...of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1871), and the Descent of Man, along with the full text of his delightfulautobiography. They are accompanied by generous selections of responses from Darwin's nineteenth-century readers from across the world. More than anything, they give a keen sense of the controversial nature of Darwin's ideas, and his position within Victorian debates about man's place in nature.The wide-ranging introduction by James A. Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, explores the global impact and origins of Darwin's work and the reasons for its unparalleled significance today. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Charles Darwin's words first appeared in print as a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1829, and in almost every subsequent year of his life he published essays, articles, letters to editors, ...or other brief works. These shorter publications contain a wealth of valuable material. They represent an important part of the Darwin visible to the Victorian public, alongside his ever present sense of humour, and reveal an even wider variety of his scientific interests and abilities, which continued to his final days. This book brings together all known shorter publications and printed items Darwin wrote during his lifetime, including his first and his last publications, and the first publication, with A. R. Wallace, of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. With over seventy newly discovered items, the book is fully edited and annotated, and contains original illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.
Short taxonomic guide to the genus "Candidatus Phytoplasma" [plant diseases] Firrao, G. (Udine Univ. (Italy). Dipartimento di Biologia Applicata alla Difesa delle Piante); Gibb, K. (Charles Darwin Univ., Northern Territory (Australia)); Streten, C. (Charles Darwin Univ., Northern Territory (Australia))
Journal of plant pathology,
12/2005, Letnik:
87, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The category of Candidatus was introduced to allow unambiguous reference to organisms that could not be cultivated in vitro. In plant pathology, a major impact of this novel taxonomic concept was to ...enable the classification of the diverse group of organisms, morphologically similar to the mycoplasmas, known by the trivial name of phytoplasmas. These plant pathogens were originally named according to the disease they caused. Later, extensive sequence analysis of the ribosomal RNA genes allowed the development of an evolution-based classification and the grouping of the phytoplasmas into phylogenetically distinct clades. Unfortunately, the phytopathological and the phylogenetic classification did not match and had striking contradictions. With the adoption of the category Candidatus, the description of the genus "Ca. Phytoplasma" and several "Ca. Phytoplasma" species, the scientific community is now attempting to provide a classification that takes into account both the phylogenetic and the biological/ecological characteristics of the organisms. Here we provide an outline of the characteristics and composition of the genus "Ca. Phytoplasma"
La categoria dei Candidatus è stata introdotta per poter disporre di riferimenti non ambigui a organismi che non potevano essere coltivati in vitro. In patologia vegetale, un effetto principale di questo nuovo concetto tassonomico è stato quello di consentire la classificazione del gruppo vario di microrganismi, simili morfologicamente ai micoplasmi, indicati con il nome corrente di fitoplasmi. Questi patogeni delle piante sono stati originariamente denominati in rapporto alla malattia che essi causavano. In seguito, un´ampia analisi della sequenza genica mediante l´RNA ribosomiale ha consentito di sviluppare una classificazione basata sull´evoluzione e il raggruppamento dei fitoplasmi in cladi distinti dal punto di vista filogenetico. Sfortunatamente, la classificazione fitopatologica e quella filogenetica non coincidevano e presentavano evidenti contraddizioni. Con l´adozione della categoria Candidatus, la descrizione del genere "Ca. Phytoplasma" e di numerose specie "Ca. Phytoplasma", la comunità scientifica sta attualmente tentando di fornire una classificazione che tiene conto delle caratteristiche sia filogenetiche, sia biologico/ecologiche degli organismi. In questo contributo presentiamo i lineamenti delle caratteristiche e della composizione del genere "Ca. Phytoplasma".
Charles Darwin's book about his grandfather, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, is curiously fascinating. Before publication in 1879, it was shortened by 16%, with several of the cuts directed at its most ...provocative parts. The cutter, with Charles's permission, was his daughter Henrietta - an example of the strong hidden hand of meek-seeming Victorian women. Originally published in 2003, this first unabridged edition, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts being restored and printed in italics. Erasmus Darwin was one of the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth century. He was a respected physician, a well-known poet, a keen mechanical inventor, and a founding member of the influential Lunar Society. He also possessed an amazing insight into the many branches of physical and biological science. Most notably, he adopted what we now call biological evolution as his theory of life, 65 years prior to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.
The Descent of Man CHARLES DARWIN
Philosophy after Darwin,
06/2021
Book Chapter
The moral sense —Fundamental proposition —The qualities of social animals —Origin of sociability —Struggle between opposed instincts — Man a social animal —The more enduring social instincts conquer ...other less persistent instincts —The social virtues alone regarded by savages —The self-regarding virtues acquired at a later stage of development —The importance of the judgment of the members of the same community on conduct —Transmission of moral tendencies — Summary.
I fully subscribe to the judgment of those writers¹ who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important.
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and ...wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published, making ground-breaking use of photography. Also in this year, the sixth and final edition of On the Origin of Species was published and Darwin resumed his work on carnivorous plants and plant movement, finding unexpected similarities between the plant and animal kingdoms.
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