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The 174 pages that link to Charles Darwin, each with the reason it gives.

• Sexual dimorphismRelated: Darwin used differences between male and female animals to develop sexual selection.

• PhylogeneticsRelated: His branching image of life's history helped establish the central problem of phylogenetic reconstruction.

• University of CambridgeRelated: Darwin studied at Christ's College before his voyage on HMS Beagle.

• Sexual selectionRelated: Darwin distinguished mate-driven advantages from advantages in survival in his 1871 account.

• BiogeographyRelated: Galápagos mockingbirds convinced him that species distribution was evidence of common descent.

• Cambrian explosionRelated: Darwin recognized the sudden appearance of animal fossils as a challenge for his theory.

• Naturalism (literature)Related: Evolutionary ideas formed part of the scientific climate in which naturalism developed.

• Plant taxonomyRelated: Evolution gave plant classification a genealogical purpose beyond organizing resemblance.

• Adaptive radiationRelated: His observations of island species helped establish how divergence could accompany descent from common ancestors.

• Social DarwinismRelated: Social Darwinists borrowed evolutionary concepts from a theory primarily developed to explain biological change.

• EvolutionRelated: His account made natural selection a central explanation for evolutionary change.

• Evolutionary biologyRelated: His work supplied a mechanism for explaining adaptation and common descent.

• ExtinctionRelated: Darwin explained extinction as a consequence of changing environments and competition among organisms.

• Alexander von HumboldtRelated: Darwin read Humboldt’s travel writing and later recalled its influence on his scientific ambitions.

• ArchaeopteryxRelated: The first Archaeopteryx fossils appeared soon after Darwin’s book, making them relevant to debates about evolutionary change.

• AposematismRelated: Darwin's discussions of conspicuous caterpillars helped frame the puzzle Wallace addressed.

• AnthropomorphismRelated: Darwin acknowledged using humanlike language for animal minds while arguing for mental continuity across species.

• Animal cognitionRelated: Darwin argued that mental abilities, like physical traits, could evolve across species.

• AuxinRelated: His coleoptile experiments suggested that a signal from the tip controls bending.

• AnthropocentrismRelated: Evolution challenged sharp claims of human separation from other animals.

• Alfred Russel WallaceRelated: Darwin and Wallace independently formulated natural selection, then presented their ideas jointly in 1858.

• EusocialityRelated: Sterile worker insects posed a challenge to his explanation of evolution by natural selection.

• Evolutionary psychologyRelated: His account of selection and sexual selection underlies evolutionary explanations of mind and behavior.

• UniformitarianismRelated: Darwin used gradual geological change as a model for cumulative biological change.

• EthologyRelated: Darwin argued that behavioral traits, like physical traits, could evolve through natural selection.

• Facial expressionRelated: His 1872 book argued that emotional expressions have evolutionary origins and cross-cultural similarities.

• Scottish EnlightenmentRelated: Scottish conjectural history formed part of a wider culture of explaining change through gradual processes.

• University of EdinburghRelated: Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh from 1825 to 1827.

• Gender essentialismRelated: Evolutionary explanations of sex differences have sometimes been used to support essentialist claims.

• Charles LyellRelated: Darwin credited Lyell’s geology with shaping his thinking about gradual change and the age of Earth.

• Francis GaltonRelated: Darwin’s theory of evolution prompted Galton to investigate inheritance and variation.

• LamarckismRelated: Darwin accepted some inheritance of acquired effects, while offering natural selection as a different mechanism.

• Human natureRelated: Evolution made human capacities part of a continuous history with other animals.

• Plant systematicsRelated: Evolution gave plant classification an explicitly genealogical purpose.

• Thomas Henry HuxleyRelated: Huxley became one of Darwin’s most prominent public defenders.

• IntrogressionRelated: Darwin discussed hybridization and variation before introgression became a formal genetic concept.

• Religious naturalismRelated: Evolution offered religious naturalists a powerful account of life’s history without supernatural design.

• Galápagos IslandsRelated: His observations in the Galápagos contributed to the questions that shaped his theory.

• GradualismRelated: Darwin applied cumulative change over generations to explain the diversification of life.

• TeleologyRelated: Natural selection explained adaptations through historical processes rather than future-directed purposes.

• Wallace LineRelated: Wallace’s independent evolutionary work developed alongside Darwin’s and helped frame his biogeographic observations.

• Darwin's finchesRelated: Darwin collected Galápagos birds, though he initially misidentified several finch specimens.

• Ernst HaeckelRelated: Darwin’s work supplied the evolutionary framework Haeckel promoted and extended in Germany.

• HeterosisRelated: His experiments on plant crossing helped document effects later associated with heterosis.

• Comparative psychologyRelated: Darwin argued that mental abilities, like bodily traits, could evolve across species.

• Herbert SpencerRelated: Darwin adopted Spencer’s phrase “survival of the fittest” in later editions of On the Origin of Species.

• ParthenocarpyRelated: Darwin investigated fruit development and the effects of stimulation without fertilization.

• CatastrophismRelated: Darwin drew on Lyell’s gradualist geology when reasoning about biological change.

• Drake PassageRelated: His Beagle voyage crossed the waters near Cape Horn during its South American surveys.

• 1960 Valdivia earthquakeRelated: His account of the 1835 Chile earthquake supplied an earlier comparison for coastal uplift.