AMS C-14 ages of coretops collected on RRS Charles Darwin cruise CD159, July 2004, N. Atlantic, for the NERC RAPID programme

Material and data were collected at 41 sites in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Newfoundland, during the RRS CharlesDarwin CD159 cruise in July 2004 (McCave, 2005). Sites were selected to reflect the major inputs of water that becomes the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW); the Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW), the Denmark Strait Overflow Water (DSOW) and the Labrador Sea Water (LSW). Areas cored were the south Iceland Rise, SE Greenland slope/rise and Eirik Drift, and the Labrador margin. A total of 29 box cores, 19 piston cores, 6 kasten cores, 9 short gravity cores and 20 CTD casts as well as 28 surface water samples were collected during the cruise. Here we present sediment core-top sample ages. The cores were sampled at 1 or 0.5 cm intervals and we used the top 1 or 2 cm, depending on availability of foraminifera in the samples. Sediment samples were disaggregated on an end-over-end wheel, wet sieved at >63 um, and dry sieved to 63-150 and >150 um. Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) radiocarbon dating was done for each core top based on between 900-1600 monospecific planktonic foraminifera (Globigerina bulloides or Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral)). All dates were of modern or late Holocene age except site RAPID-08-5B (9806 ± 38 uncorrected 14C years BP) and site RAPID-14-10B (11543 ± 40 uncorrected 14C years BP). The >150 um fraction was split until approximately 300 foraminifera remained and counted for number of lithic grains, benthic foraminifera, planktonic foraminifera and foraminifera fragments. In all but the shallowest sample (Greenland rise, 761m water depth) benthic foraminifera constituted less than 2% of the total >150 um fraction of the sample.

Autobiography of Charles Darwin : with two appendices, comprising a chapter of reminiscences and a statement of Charles Darwin's religious views /

Mode of access: Internet.

Charles Darwin,

Mode of access: Internet.

Charles Darwin and the Origin of species; addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fifty years of Darwinism; modern aspects of evolution; centennial addresses in honor of Charles Darwin, before the American association for the advancement of science, Baltimore, Friday, January 1, 1909.

Photocopy -- 22 cm.

Darwin and modern science; essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of species.

"Dates of the publication of Charles Darwin's books and of the principal events in his life": p. [xiii]-xvii.

The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter /

Includes index.

Like grandfather, like grandson: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on evolution

Last year (2009) marked the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the sesquicentenary of The Origin of Species. This article examines the influence of Erasmus Darwin on Charles's evolutionary thought and shows how, in many ways, Erasmus anticipated his much better-known grandson. It discusses the similarity in the mindsets of the two Darwins, asks how far the younger Darwin was exposed to the elder's evolutionary thought, examines the similarities and differences in their theories of evolution, and ends by showing the surprising similarity between their theories of inheritance. Erasmus's influence on Charles is greater than customarily acknowledged, and now is an opportune time to bring the grandfather out from behind the glare of his stellar grandson.

Enfermedades y muerte de Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin nació en Shrewsbury, Inglaterra, el 12 de febrero de 1809. Tuvo excelente salud, hasta su regreso, en 1836, del viaje alrededor del mundo con el Beagle. A partir de ese momento comenzó a manifestar cefaleas, palpitaciones, temblores, caries y paradentosis, catarros respiratorios, artritis, forúnculos, puntos negros en la visión, mareos, dolores abdominales, náuseas, vómitos, flatulencias, insomnio, accesos de furia, depresión y períodos de extremo agotamiento. Más allá de mejorías temporarias, estos síntomas se manifestaron durante los últimos 45 años de su vida, a pesar de lo cual pudo encontrar la entereza suficiente como para publicar 14 libros, entre ellos el genial El origen de las especies. Los diagnósticos más probables puestos a consideración por los distintos investigadores fueron un trastorno bipolar asociado a una herencia psicopatológica y la enfermedad de Chagas, que este ilustre personaje pudo haber contraído en Sudamérica. Finalmente, el 19 de abril de 1882, Darwin falleció muy probablemente a consecuencia de una patología vascular coronaria y cerebral. Sus restos se encuentran en la abadía de Westminster, junto a los de Isaac Newton.

Imagen del mundo, percepción y descripción de la naturaleza. Un estudio comparado en torno a las presuposiciones onto-epistemológicas en la poesía romántica inglesa y la prosa científica de Charles Darwin

615 p.