Editor’s Note: this is the third of an irregular but continuing series of columns written by Wil Taylor for the CVPost. It revisits Taylor’s popular six-part series on Charles Darwin, written last year shortly after the launch of this website. This article adds to Taylor’s interpretation for our readers of Darwin’s significance. The original “Deconstructing […]
Deconstructing Darwin: Part I – Darwin’s early life (1809-1831)
Editor’s note: Feb. 12 is Charles Darwin’s birthday, and on this day the CVPost begins a six-part series on the life of the British naturalist whose theory of evolution transformed scientific views of the natural world. The series is written by Wil Taylor, chair of the biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As […]
Deconstructing Darwin: Part II – Voyage of the Beagle (1831-1835)
Editor’s note: Feb. 12 is Charles Darwin’s birthday, and on that date the CVPost began a six-part series on the life of the British naturalist whose theory of evolution transformed scientific views of the natural world. The series is written by Wil Taylor, chair of the biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As […]
Deconstructing Darwin: Part III – Darwin’s return home and the barnacle years (1835-1852)
Editor’s note: Feb. 12 is Charles Darwin’s birthday, and on that date the CVPost began a six-part series on the life of the British naturalist whose theory of evolution transformed scientific views of the natural world. The series is written by Wil Taylor, chair of the biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As […]
Deconstructing Darwin: Part IV – The post-Beagle years and publication of “The Origin of Species” (1838-59)
Editor’s note: Feb. 12 is Charles Darwin’s birthday, and on that date the CVPost began a six-part series on the life of the British naturalist whose theory of evolution transformed scientific views of the natural world. The series is written by Wil Taylor, chair of the biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As […]
Deconstructing Darwin: Part V – “The Origin of Species” and Darwin’s later years (1859-1882)
Editor’s note: Feb. 12 is Charles Darwin’s birthday, and on that date the CVPost began a six-part series on the life of the British naturalist whose theory of evolution transformed scientific views of the natural world. The series is written by Wil Taylor, chair of the biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As […]