Darwin's inspiration on Denkpfad.

Stuffed giant tortoises and creative scribbles: the 200th Birthday of Charles Darwin jostle in England several exhibitions to tourists. Some will be above all to prove - that the famous evolutionary biologist of all time also was only one man.
  London - A trip to England, even in winter with birds and marine noise begin. Or the view of an exotic poison frog or a green iguana, based on a log festklammert. They can also be waiting in front of a square hole or begin with a tour by a schwüles greenhouse. You can start when you are in the footsteps of Charles Darwin moves.
In February, the 200th Birthday of the evolutionary biologists at. Everywhere in his native Britain wait fresh herausgeputzte attractions to visitors. Even if you are using one of the new Darwin books or the original text "On the Origin of Species" comfortably on the sofa could make to the natural scientist to appreciate: A trip to his hometown has a special charm.
Here you can feel what a man Darwin was how he lived and worked and what turmoil it caused in his time. And cheaper than a trip to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, where Darwin permanent inspiration for his theory of evolution took place, the journey across the English Channel as well.
A first overview of the extent of his work is a special exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. For Darwin - Big Idea "was material from archives around the world gathered. Here the visitor, artificial wave of noise and bird song berieselt before giant turtles, frogs and stuffed Platt ridicule chokes. The latter collected Darwin on his trip to the Galapagos Islands and mused in view of the small animal pen for the first time about the possibility of evolution after.
Revolutionary scribbles in notebook
There is a pamphlet. On the aufgeschlagenen site is in Krakelschrift "I think", including an evolutionary chart - hard to believe that this alleged scribbles the literal understanding of God and should revolutionize the world. Like an evolutionary theme park is a hodgepodge. Since letters are quoted, mouse embryos with horse compared, note books and original editions, and presents to the present ongoing debate over the theory of evolution presented. Even Darwin's work room is to marvel at - it has been faithfully reconstructed.
TMNGeboren in Shrewsbury, died in London in Down: A trip to England, Charles Darwin's footsteps leads to locations in different parts of the country.
Some 25 kilometers away, in down southeast of London, the visitor finds in Darwin's "real" work the room again. In the small town in the county of Kent is the house where Darwin and his family spent most of his life. Currently it is restored, a day after Darwin's birthday, on 13 February, in a new gloss to open.
As in an oasis of calm, the pastel-colored house surrounded by a huge garden with flowerbeds and greenhouses. "We want the visitors mainly show that Darwin" humanely "and had no irrer thinkers," explains museum guide Richard Smith-Gore and deletes on a billiard table at which Darwin distraction from the research found.
Children tollten once in the huge house around - Darwin had with his wife Emma ten sons and daughters, even if only seven children survived. Guests were always on and off. "The Darwin were a very social, happy family, not a strict Victorian household. There was always something going on," says Smith-Gore.
Research children despite the noise and bustle
A tour shows that there is no poor people lived: Darwin's wife - his cousin, first-degree relatives - came from a rich family Wedgwood. The researcher, she married in 1839, after being among the lonely life for science and a "nice soft wife on a sofa" (a "nice soft wife on the sofa") was weighed. "It was his stop. Even if they are strictly faithful always concerned about the findings of her husband did," says Smith-Gore.
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Who on the other hand, inspired by the underworld examined is the best in a small hole in the garden lifted before Darwin observed earthworms. "It is probably rare that you leave looking worms," said Smith-Gore, "but Darwin studied them very happy indeed." He klaubte them on and put them in jars in the house. In their response, he wanted to study music - including a bassoon tones or Waldhorns.