The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy.
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The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selec Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection.


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The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. Darwin developed his interest in natural history while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge.

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Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection in Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority.

He was writing up his theory in when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.


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Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. On the voyage of the Beagle--before he had ever seen a coral reef--Darwin had deduced an explanation of the geological processes that created them by applying Charles Lyell's explanation of uplift and subsidence. Accordingly, he posited that the Chilean coast had been rising while the ocean floor was subsiding. When he finally explored some barrier reefs, he knew that since the polyps could not live deeper than feet, and all the coral below that was dead, the confirmation of the reefs' great depth was evidence of subsidence--a theory that has stood the test of time.

The structure and distribution of coral reefs

This is an attractive and affordable edition of Darwin's treatise. What a buy for great historic literature from the greatest of them all, Charles Darwin, Readers need to have a basic knowledge of biotica of the reefs.

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