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Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … clearer. Although he is more often associated with dogs than cats, it was cats that led to one such …
- … characteristics, was an association between deafness in cats, and the colour of their fur and eyes. …
- … in the first edition of Origin , Darwin stated that ‘cats with blue eyes’ were ‘invariably deaf’ …
- … he didn’t say so in print, he had been told that cats with only one blue eye were deaf in only one …
- … of Origin , Darwin had already diluted the claim to: ‘cats with blue eyes are generally deaf’ ( …
- … Rodwell had bad news: not only was he certain his own white, blue-eyed cat was not ‘ in the …
- … & fishing rendezvous for Cockneys ’ had five white cats and a kitten, as well as four black …
- … In a further complication to the example of cats, one observer, Lawson Tait, later claimed that it …
- … to Fox to ask specifically about the sex of his deaf white cats . Fox, possibly a little …
Darwin, cats and cat shows
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One of the more unusual invitations Darwin received was to be a patron of the Crystal Palace cat show, the first nationwide cat show in Britain. The man who first came up with the idea for the show, Harrison Weir, was one of Darwin’s correspondents, as…
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- … both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Are white cats with blue eyes deaf? The first ‘ …
- … suggested establishing ‘ a small class for “white cats of any breed, with both eyes or one alone …
- … readers. Darwin used an association between deafness in cats and the colour of their fur and eyes …
- … other changes that were useful. Darwin’s information on cats came mostly from one of his cousins, …
- … later shown to be right. Read more about deaf blue-eyed cats and correlation of growth. …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … had become geographically dispersed , whether white blue-eyed cats really were invariably deaf …
