Evolution of ageing since Darwin

Genetics and the causes of evolution: 150 years of progress since Darwin.

The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 represents an unsurpassed landmark in the history of biology. Charles Darwin had been thinking about evolution since 1836, and accumulating evidence both that it had occurred and that it was caused primarily (but not exclusively, as he was always careful to emphasize) by natural selection. By 1844, he had the preliminary ideas on evolution by nat...

Darwin and the evolution of flowers.

Darwin and the popularization of evolution.

Evolution was popularized from 1860 to 1900 in the USA and Britain in a wide variety of media. Here I investigate traditional texts associated with the intellectual elite, including philosophical or scientific monographs, sermons, and published lectures. Evolution was rarely popularized in ways that reflected Darwin's major contribution to biology, his theory of natural selection. This meant th...

On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution

Jerry Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have happened") and because (2) only minds can select. Hence Darwin's analogy with "artificial selection" by animal breeders was misleading and evolutionary explanation is nothing but post-hoc historical ...

CLUSTER EVOLUTION SINCE z ∼ 1

We have used the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the HST to obtain optical imaging of a sample of 8 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.8 < z < 1.3. The ACS data provides accurate photometry and the ACS high angular resolution makes it possible to obtain crucial morphological information of the cluster galaxy populations. These data are supported by X-ray observations and by ground bas...