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Join us as we re-create Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, and follow in his footsteps on horseback. With debates over eugenics and creationism in the air, you might forgive us for getting a little emotional too
The Beagle Voyage
If he hadn't been invited to join an expedition to map the coastline of South America, 22-year-old theology graduate and keen naturalist Charles Darwin might well have become an Anglican parson. As it was, Darwin's trip on the HMS Beagle gave him the raw material to develop a theory that hit at the heart of religious thinking on how the world was created.
Eugenics
Darwin’s ideas inevitably made some people consider the future of humanity as well as its past…
Creation Science
The theory of Evolution is most challenged by Creationists, who believe that God took an active role making the natural world.
Expression of the Emotions
After he had expanded on the idea of human evolution from the higher primates in "The Descent of Man", Charles Darwin published one final major work of scientific theory. "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872) proposed the idea that the basic emotions we experience are common to all human races across all periods of history. The evidence for this, Darwin argues, lies in the fact that there are striking similarities in the facial expressions by which these emotions are registered.
Interview: Professor Beer explains...
Dame Gillian Beer was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Among her works are "Darwin's Plots" and the World Classics edition of Darwin's "The Origin Of Species". ICONS talked to her about why she thinks Darwin's book was so significant when it was published, and why it is still troubling today...
Saddled with Darwin
Once upon a time the young soon-to-be travel-writer and historian Toby Green decided it would be a good idea to trace Darwin’s South American journey on horseback. The resulting adventures became his first published book, "Saddled With Darwin". Toby talked to ICONS, casting his mind far back to those early days…
Ten things…
Think you're a Darwin buff? Then try testing your knowledge against our ten taxing facts.
