Hi ! In today's Post some recent stamps on Charles Darwin issued by Gibraltar on 17th November to commemorate his 200th Birth Anniversary. The stamps are in classic Black & White photos of Darwin with his famous books. The stamps are most exclusive in design than the stamps issued so far on Charles Darwin as these stamps feature the work of Darwin which created landmark in the field of Biology. This is all for today...Till Next Post...Have a Nice Time !...
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life.
The Gibraltar Darwin 200th Anniversary issue is comprised of 4 stamps and a miniature sheet all dedicated to some of his most important books. His 1859 book 'On the Origin of Species' established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in 'The Descent of Man', and 'Selection in Relation to Sex', followed by 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals'. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil.
Courtesy - Gibraltar Philatelic Bureaue
