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L' uvre de Darwin comprend, outre ses travaux biologiques, trois ouvrages consacres specialement a la geologie. Ils ont paru sous le titre general de Geologie du Voyage du Beagle et forment comme une trilogie embrassant l'etude des constructions coralliennes, des iles volcaniques et de la geologie de l'Amerique meridionale. De ces publications, la seule qui ait ete traduite en francais est celle sur les iles coralliennes, etude magistrale ou se sont revelees pour la premiere fois la grandeur de conception, la puissance et la penetration de cet incomparable observateur. Je me suis propose de completer la traduction des uvres geologiques de Darwin et je publie aujourd'hui ses Observations sur les iles volcaniques, qui seront suivies par ses etudes sur la geologie de l'Amerique du Sud. Ces ouvrages, qui ont paru en 1844 et 1846, constituent un ensemble avec le Journal d'un Naturaliste, dont ils developpent les passages essentiels sous une forme plus technique. Ces pages, moins descriptives et pittoresques de facture, reclamees telles en quelque sorte par les sujets plus speciaux dont elles traitent, n'ont pas, quoique d'une portee assez haute cependant pour consacrer, a elles seules, la reputation de l'Auteur, attire l'attention generale comme l'ont fait son attachant Journal d'un Naturaliste et son livre sur la Structure et la Distribution des iles coralliennes. D'autre part, ces recherches geologiques sont de Darwin avant le Darwinisme: elles ont precede de pres de quinze ans l'Origine des especes et ses travaux biologiques qui marquent une date dans l'histoire des sciences.

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Charles Robert Darwin (ne le 12fevrier1809 a Shrewsbury dans le Shropshire - mort le 19avril1882 a Downe dans le Kent) est un naturaliste anglais dont les travaux sur l'evolution des especes vivantes ont revolutionne la biologie avec son ouvrage De l'origine des especes paru en 1859. Celebre au sein de la communaute scientifique de son epoque pour son travail sur le terrain et ses recherches en geologie, il a formule l'hypothese selon laquelle toutes les especes vivantes ont evolue au cours du temps a partir d'un seul ou quelques ancetres communs grace au processus connu sous le nom de selection naturelle. Darwin a vu de son vivant la theorie de l'evolution acceptee par la communaute scientifique et le grand public, alors que sa theorie sur la selection naturelle a du attendre les annees 1930 pour etre generalement consideree comme l'explication essentielle du processus d'evolution. Au XXIesiecle, elle constitue en effet la base de la theorie moderne de l'evolution. Sous une forme modifiee, la decouverte scientifique de Darwin reste le fondement de la biologie, car elle explique de facon logique et unifiee la diversite de la vie. L'interet de Darwin pour l'histoire naturelle lui vint alors qu'il avait commence a etudier la medecine a l'universite d'Edimbourg, puis la theologie a Cambridge. Son voyage de cinq ans a bord du Beagle l'etablit dans un premier temps comme un geologue dont les observations et les theories soutenaient les theories actualistes de Charles Lyell. La publication de son journal de voyage le rendit celebre. Intrigue par la distribution geographique de la faune sauvage et des fossiles dont il avait recueilli des specimens au cours de son voyage, il etudia la transformation des especes et en concut sa theorie sur la selection naturelle en 1838. Il fut fortement influence par les theories de Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon."


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  • ISBN-13: 9781496139030
  • Publisher: Createspace
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 190 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1496139038
  • Publisher Date: 05 Mar 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Weight: 204 gr


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