Evolution, Devolution,
and Charles Darwin

The truth is, we really still do not know for absolute sure how humanity ended up on this planet. Most educated people no longer believe in the Biblical creation myth. Charles Darwin is certainly the person most associated with modern scientific theories concerning evolution of not only the human species, but of all living things. His works revolutionized our understanding of the way the planet became populated with all life. But was he completely correct? How did humans really end up on earth? In these past decades, many people now wonder if we were seeded by aliens, myself included. In fact, with each passing day, I think there's a pretty good chance we are going to finally have all our questions of origin answered with no room for doubts, and the answers will probably be extremely disturbing to a great many people.

This index page is devoted to everything concerning evolution, which includes devolutiion. We are certainly in the process of that right now. The vast majority of people on this planet have devolved into something horrid: greedy, selfish, mean, rude. We have raped and plundered our precious Earth and her other creatures, and every passing day brings us closer to paying the price for our wickedness. Edward O. Wilson said, " Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself." We shall see the result, and pretty soon, I believe.

Many authors wrote fiction which concerns evolution/devolution. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote, in her novel, Herland, about an isolated race of women who evolved totally different than the rest of humanity, but in a positive way. Others have written about isolated peoples who have not evolved at all, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World; and Michael Crichton's book of the same title is about scientists who bring back dinosaurs, long extinct. And of course any scientific non-fictional books that in any way discuss our evolving/devolving species are included here, too. This index will not include fantasy civilizations on other planets. I have quite a bit of very cool materials destined for this page. Hope you check them out.

National Geographic

Evolution, Devolution
(And Those Who Never Evolved)

Novels

After London, Or, Wild England
Before Adam
City of Endless Night
Eaters of the Dead
Erewhon
The Food of the Gods: and How it Came to Earth
Herland
In the Drift
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jurassic Park
The Lost World (Conan Doyle)
The Lost World (Crichton)
The Night Land
Odd John and Sirius: Two Science-Fiction Novels by Olaf Stapledon
Origin
Raptor Red
The Scarlet Plague
The Shape of Things to Come
Underground Man

Series

The Pellucidar Series

Collections

The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Complete)
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny
Just So Stories
The King in Yellow And Other Horror Stories

Short Stories

The Tabu Tale

Coloring Books

Prehistoric Man

Bored Panda

Evolution, Devolution

Non-Fiction

Bringers of the Dawn
The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Edgar Cayce On Atlantis
A History of the Vikings
The Intelligence of Dogs: Canine Consciousness and Capabilities
Letter to Earth: Who We Are Becoming . . . What We Need to Know
Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

Charles Darwin, The Galapagos Islands

Charles Darwin

Whether or not you believe his theories, Charles Darwin is probably the name most associated with the modern scientific explanation of the origin of species; not only human, but all species: their common ancestry, and how such rich variations of all living things came to be.

Darwin was born in Shropshire in 1809. His father, Robert was a wealthy doctor, so it was assumed that Charles would follow in his footsteps. He was sent to the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1825, but his interest was in natural history. When he neglected his medical studies, his father sent him to Christ College, Cambridge, to be an Anglican country parson. But his zeal for the study of natural history continued to grow. And at least there, he had access to materials that tied in natural selection and evolution of species with religion. (Really, though some modern "Christians" dispute all he has said!) Darwin remained at Christ College until 1831, and when he returned home, he found a letter from his friend and mentor, John Stevens Henslow, a botany professor at Christ College. It was an invitation to travel on the HMS Beagle as a "gentleman naturalist." And the rest, as they say, is history. Actually there is quite a bit more, and you can read it at Wikipedia.

In any case, the Beagle has become so associated with Darwin, that before I worked on the Galapagos coloring book listed below, I thought it was Darwin's vessel! And of course it is upon this two year voyage that Darwin made his most famous discoveries on those islands, which, also, one cannot think about without thinking of him. The voyage actually took him around the globe. The Wikipedia article includes a map.

In addition to general materials about evolution, I have quite a bit specifically about Darwin and his works, which will all gradually make their way onto this index. Darwin died in Kent, England in 1882, at the age of 73.

Blue-Footed Boobies on the Galapagos Islands

The HMS Beagle

Charles Darwin, The Galapagos Islands

Non-Fiction

Galápagos: World's End

Collections

The Encantadas and Other Stories

Coloring Books

Galapagos Islands

See Also

Dinosaurs, Prehistoric


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