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1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
1837-43: The London years to 'natural selection'
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1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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1858-1859: Origin
1860: Answering critics
1861: Gaining allies
1862: A multiplicity of experiments
1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
1864: Failing health
1865: Delays and disappointments
1866: Survival of the fittest
1867: A civilised dispute
1868: Studying sex
1869: Forward on all fronts
1870: Human evolution
1871: An emptying nest
1872: Job done?
1873: Animal or vegetable?
1874: A turbulent year
1875: Pulling strings
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Editing a Letter
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Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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Evolution
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Darwin and Glen Roy
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Darwin and Down
Darwin and Down overview
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
The evolution of honeycomb
A tale of two bees
Beauty and the seed
Beauty and the seed overview
Mauro Galetti: profile of an ecologist
Casting about: Darwin on worms
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Darwin and barnacles
Darwin and barnacles overview
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Darwin and vivisection
Darwin and vivisection overview
Vivisection: draft petition
Vivisection: BAAS committee report
Vivisection: first sketch of the bill
Vivisection: Darwin's testimony
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Human nature
Human nature overview
Darwin on human evolution
The expression of emotions
The expression of emotions overview
Emotion experiment
Emotion experiment overview
Results of the Darwin Online Emotions Experiment
Face of emotion
Darwin’s queries on expression
The origin of language
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Language: key letters
Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
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'Re: Design' dramatisation
'Re: Design' dramatisation overview
Dramatisation script
Darwin and design
What did Darwin believe?
Darwin and the Church
British Association meeting 1860
Darwin and religion in America
Essays and reviews by Asa Gray
Essays and reviews by Asa Gray overview
Darwiniana – Preface
Essay: Design versus necessity
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
Essay: Evolution and theology
Essay: What is Darwinism?
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
Science and religion Interviews
Science and religion Interviews overview
Interview with Emily Ballou
Interview with Simon Conway Morris
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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Interview with Tim Lewens
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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About Darwin
About Darwin overview
Family life
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Darwin on childhood
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Darwin and fatherhood
The death of Annie Darwin
Visiting the Darwins
The Voyage of the Beagle
What Darwin read
What Darwin read overview
Darwin’s student booklist
Books on the Beagle
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On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species overview
The writing of "Origin"
Abstract of Darwin’s theory
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
Charles Darwin and his publisher
Review: The Origin of Species
Darwin’s health
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Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
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Ages 7-11
Ages 7-11 overview
Darwin The Collector
Detecting Darwin
Darwin And Evolution
Darwin's Fantastical Voyage
Ages 11-14
Ages 11-14 overview
The offer of a lifetime
How dangerous was Darwin?
Doing Darwin's experiments
Darwin and religion
The Beagle voyage
Darwin's scientific women
Darwin and slavery
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Letters as a primary source overview
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Getting to know Darwin's science
Getting to know Darwin's science overview
Early days
Barnacles
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Variation under domestication
Orchids
Instinct and the evolution of mind
Insectivorous plants
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Floral dimorphism
Power of movement in plants
Earthworms
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Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007)
Anne Schlabach Burkhardt (1916–2012)
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The correspondence of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
The correspondence 1821-60: anniversary paperback set
A voyage round the world
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Research initiatives overview
Darwin and ecological science
Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
Evolutionary views of human nature
The Darwin and gender project
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Darwin and gender projects by Harvard students
Darwin’s Women: Short Film
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W. C Holbrook
fl. 1880s
