Talk:Charles Darwin

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Ten pound note

In 2017, Darwin's face is being replaced with that of Jane Austen on the ten pound note. Much as I like Austen, Conservapedia are going to have a field day with this one. --Let Them Eat Cake (talk) 22:08, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

In 2017, Darwin's face is being replaced with that of Jane Austen on the ten pound note. Much as I like Austen, a half-dozen stupid men in the United States are going to have a field day with this one. Fixed that for you. PowderSmokeAndLeather: Say something once, why say it again?. 22:11, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

The reason that they are changing the £10 note is that every ten years or so notes are changed as a matter of routine, mainly for security reasons^{— Unsigned, by: 2.220.230.224 / talk / contribs}

Well that's a relief. --Let Them Eat Cake (talk) 14:46, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

19th century opinion on Darwin

From an 1870s magazine I was looking at - Monkeys in India have caught dengue fever: this proves Darwin is correct' (presumably because both species are related).

Don't know how armadillos would have been incorporated into the discussion. (Leprosy carriers) Anna Livia (talk) 15:46, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Things Darwin got wrong

There is no mention on the article about his hypothesis of pangenesis which was essentially Lamarckian. This paper explains [1] (The Rise and Fall of Darwin's Second Theory, Journal of the History of Biology). Jean (talk) 17:20, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Stupid question

Why did I hear Darwin was sexist? Is that true?

Blaze_Zero85.58.203.69 (talk) 17:40, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

A Toast to one of the Giants upon who's shoulders we humbly stand.

We already have the Poe Toaster, thus to carry on this noble tradition, we ought to have a Darwin Toaster. And just as the Poe Toaster bought a bottle of cognac and some roses, we too must place an offering. So RationalWiki, I ask you what Beveridge would be fitting for this great upright-ape? and of course how many roses should we leave? Leucippus 20:14, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

New species???

The article hopefully (and falsely) states that a "Galapagos finch has been observed becoming a new species." No evidence has been supplied to establish that members of this inbred sub-species do not out-breed. It seems that the simple fact of an inbred hybrid population is being used to jump to a false conclusion. (My name is John Schmeeckle.) ^{— Unsigned, by: 2600:387:15:3816:0:0:0:4 / talk / contribs}

Err you do realise that there is a source immediately afterwards which documents said new species and that the term Galapagos finch refers to a group of 18 species, of which the new species is a result of hybridisation with subsequent reproductive isolation aka not an "inbred sub-species"? Lavalizard101 (talk) 20:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)