16,000 pages of Darwin's research on evolution released online

[wvit1001]

On the 155th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's iconic work, On the Origin of the Species, 16,000 high-resolution images of his research on evolution have been released online to the public.
 
 
This week, 155 years ago, Charles Darwin published a book that would change science forever - On the Origin of the Species. Over the past seven years, the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) Darwin Manuscripts Project has been digitising all of Darwin’s original notes and musings on evolution so they can be freely distributed online.
 
Today, the manuscripts project reached the halfway mark by releasing over 16,000 high-resolution images of Darwin’s research on evolution to the public. The AMNH says the documents released "cover the 25-year period in which Darwin became convinced of evolution; discovered natural selection; developed explanations of adaptation, speciation, and a branching tree of life; and wrote the Origin”.
 
"Darwin's work in creating the Origin of Species encompassed much more than just setting pen to paper and writing the epochal book," Darwin Manuscripts Project Director David Kohn said in a press release. "The Origin was the mature fruit of a prolonged process of scientific exploration and creativity that began toward the end of his Beagle voyage, which first kindled Darwin's interest in evolution, and that continued to expand in range and deepen in conceptual rigour through numerous well-marked stages."
 
The rest of the 30,000 manuscripts will be digitised and released by June next year, which includes his extensive experimental research manuscripts written between 1835 and 1882.
 
 
http://www.amnh.org/our-research/darwin-manuscripts-project/edited-manuscripts/evolution/creating-the-origin

[DaBoz]

So what,, it was just discovered a couple years ago.

[wvit1001]

just discovered? 

[sweetwater5s9]

Darwin spoke of the "gorilla" and the "Negro" as occupying evolutionary positions between the "Baboon" and the "civilized races of man" ("Caucasian"); viz: "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the Negro [sic] or Australian and the gorilla."



Full title:

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Charles Darwin, M.A.


The Descent of Man

At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the ***** or Australian and the gorilla (1874, p. 178).



I think Darwin's position is clear ...

[wvit1001]

Nice try at spinning Darwin's work to fit your racist ideas and opinions sweaty.  Unfortunately for you it isn't true.
 
 
 

[sweetwater5s9]

Darwin’s

The Descent of Man:

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.  At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated

The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.


This passage clearly establishes the following hierarchy from most superior down to least superior:

• an advanced, post-Caucasian “civilised race of man” (presumably with women attached to it for the purposes of breeding)
  
• the current (19th century) Caucasian “civilised race of man”
  
• intermediate races of man (presumably including Jews, gypsies, Asians and Arabs)
  
• the “savage” negro and Australian races of man
  
• the “anthropomorphous” (or man-like) apes such as the gorilla
  
• the “low” (not so man-like) apes such as the baboon
  
  
  
  
  
  Here is a scan of the actual page of the 1874 edition from which comes this passage (at the bottom of the page):
  
  
  http://philosophiatopics.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/darwin-between-the-negro-or-australian-and-the-gorilla/

[wvit1001]

Nice try at spinning Darwin's work to fit your racist ideas and opinions sweaty.  Unfortunately for you it isn't true.

[sweetwater5s9]

Not my ideas, wvit., they are Darwin's ideas.

http://philosophiatopics.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/darwin-between-the-negro-or-australian-and-the-gorilla/



Darwin clearly establishes the following hierarchy from most superior down to least superior:


•an advanced, post-Caucasian “civilised race of man” (presumably with women attached to it for the purposes of breeding)

•the current (19th century) Caucasian “civilised race of man”

•intermediate races of man (presumably including Jews, gypsies, Asians and Arabs)

•the “savage” negro and Australian races of man

•the “anthropomorphous” (or man-like) apes such as the gorilla

•the “low” (not so man-like) apes such as the baboon


Darwin’s: The Descent of Man

[wvit1001]

a blog sweaty?  really?  you are about a dumb ass.

[sweetwater5s9]

Darwin’s The Descent of Man is a book not a blog, clown...

Why don't you prove Darwin wrong?

Darwin clearly establishes the following hierarchy from most superior down to least superior:


•an advanced, post-Caucasian “civilised race of man” (presumably with women attached to it for the purposes of breeding)

•the current (19th century) Caucasian “civilised race of man”

•intermediate races of man (presumably including Jews, gypsies, Asians and Arabs)

•the “savage” negro and Australian races of man

•the “anthropomorphous” (or man-like) apes such as the gorilla

•the “low” (not so man-like) apes such as the baboon

[wvit1001]

you are a dumbass sweaty.  did you not post from some goofy blog that you dug up?

your racist ideas make you resort to this type of dishonesty in order for you to maintain them sweaty.  you have to search high and low to find goofy shit that you can twist to fit your stupid.

[sweetwater5s9]

Here is a scan of the actual page of the 1874 edition from which comes this passage (at the bottom of the page):