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Portrait of Charles Darwin

Long 19th c. · 1809–1882

Who did Charles Darwin influence?

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Natural selection as a mechanism — and a new philosophical anthropology.

Charles Darwin influenced Herbert Spencer and Thomas Henry Huxley. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Charles Darwin?

Darwin neglected his medical studies at Edinburgh for natural history, then studied at Christ's College, Cambridge. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle (1831–1836) made his name as a geologist, and the travel journal that came out of it made him a popular author. Puzzled by the distribution of the species and fossils he had collected, he worked out the theory of natural selection in 1838.

When Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay with the same idea in 1858, both theories went to the Linnean Society together. On the Origin of Species (1859) set out the evidence that all species descend from common ancestors; The Descent of Man (1871) turned to human evolution and sexual selection. Natural selection became the consensus mechanism of evolution with the modern synthesis of the 1930s–1950s.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who did Charles Darwin influence?

2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Charles Darwin.

Contemporaries of Charles Darwin

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Charles Darwin, with no direct line between them.

Charles Darwin by the numbers

Direct influences
0
Direct followers
2
Thinkers upstream
0
Thinkers downstream
2
Wikipedia languages
210 — #2 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Legendary

Questions about Charles Darwin

Who influenced Charles Darwin?
No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Charles Darwin.
Who did Charles Darwin influence?
Herbert Spencer and Thomas Henry Huxley.
When did Charles Darwin live?
1809–1882. The map files Charles Darwin under the long 19th century.
How rare is the Charles Darwin card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Charles Darwin in 210 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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