• Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?
• John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
• HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America, but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist?
• Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace?
• William A. F. Browne, a radical student who proposed Charles Darwin for the Plinian Society, became a psychiatrist and pioneered art therapy?
• The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Charles Darwin's first published theory, explains how coral atolls (example pictured) form?
• the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
• in her 1875 book The Sexes Throughout Nature, Antoinette Brown Blackwell (pictured) critiqued the androcentricity expressed by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer?
• in Fertilisation of Orchids, Charles Darwin showed how beautiful orchids (example pictured) evolved through natural selection for insect pollination?
• in 1831 young Charles Darwin met William Snow Harris ("Thunder-and-Lightning Harris") whose experimental lightning conductor had just been fitted to HMS Beagle (pictured)?
• Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle?
• science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry?
• Charles Darwin was a friend of his local vicar, the Reverend John Brodie-Innes?
• Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants?
• Charles Darwin joined the Plinian Society student naturalists' club at Edinburgh University?
• Charles Darwin frequently visited Osmaston Hall in Derby, England?
• Charles Darwin's 1875 book Insectivorous Plants describes how he tried to feed meat and glass to carnivorous plants to get them to bite?
• Charles Darwin's final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms?
• Herbert Spencer, secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's idea of evolution?
• Discovery Channel called Ardi, "The evidence that Darwin could only have dreamed of"?
• Charles Kingsley's Great Hippocampus Question satirised debate on ape origins following Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species (satirical image pictured) ?
• Charles Darwin conducted a psychological study of his son William Erasmus Darwin where he compared the child to orangutan babies?

Facts on topics related to Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

• Charles Kingsley's Great Hippocampus Question satirised debate on ape origins following Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species (satirical image pictured) ?

Second voyage of HMS Beagle

• HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America, but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist?
• before taking Charles Darwin to South America as captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy visited the Galápagos Islands a decade earlier as a midshipman aboard HMS Owen Glendower (pictured)?

Evolution

• developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature?
• Herbert Spencer, secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's idea of evolution?
• Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace?
• Lord Neaves, a judge on the supreme court of Scotland, was quoted by Darwin on evolution, but attributed the concept of evolution to Lord Monboddo, not Darwin?
• Italian Wall Lizards (pictured) on a Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid evolution"?
• microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals?
• Pale Flax may be an evolutionary predecessor to Common Flax, from which the fiber is derived?
• York radiate groundsel (Senecio eboracensis) is a hybrid plant species thought to have evolved suddenly within the last 300 years?
• William King Gregory, a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition, was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
• fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?

Natural selection

• meiosis, a form of cell division, confers a selective advantage?
  
• alternative theories of speciation besides natural selection include Lamarckism and orthogenesis?
• in Fertilisation of Orchids, Charles Darwin showed how beautiful orchids (example pictured) evolved through natural selection for insect pollination?

Fertilisation of Orchids

• in Fertilisation of Orchids, Charles Darwin showed how beautiful orchids (example pictured) evolved through natural selection for insect pollination?