01.15.06
How Darwin Evolved
How Darwin evolved, a book review.
In 1838, Charles Darwin wrote in his Notebook M, “I a geologist have illdefined [sic] notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical”. When the young naturalist set forth on the Beagle late in 1831 he thought of himself not as a biologist, but as a geologist first and foremost. Our subsequent picture of him has been altogether coloured by the overwhelming impact of The Origin of Species, which was not published until 1859. But for a dozen years or so Charles Darwin was mostly concerned with geological problems, and it was a geological underpinning that led to much of what was most original in his subsequent work on evolution.
Note the change in the usage of the term ‘evolution’. Like the way New Agers use it.