The Transmutation of species and transformism are 18th and early 19th-century ideas about the change of one species into another that preceded Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural sele
This 1847 diagram by Richard Owen shows his conceptual archetype for all vertebrates.
Darwin's finches by Gould
Following the inception of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection in 1838, the development of Darwin's theory to explain the "mystery of mysteries" of how new species originated was his "prime h
Darwin's first sketch of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837)
The Darwins lived in Gower Street in London.
In 1842 they moved to Down House in rural Kent.
In 1846 Darwin rented land from his neighbour John Lubbock to plant woodland and lay out the "sandwalk" at Down House which became his usual "Thinking Path".