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Plant or animal? (Or: Don’t try this at home!)
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Darwin is famous for showing that humans are just another animal, but, in his later years in particular, his real passion was something even more ambitious: to show that there are no hard-and-fast boundaries between animals and plants. In 1875 Darwin…
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- … leaf, and a whole Victorian poisoner’s armoury – even cobra poison (Victorian homes had access to …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … carried on with botanical work in spring. He tried to obtain cobra poison, probably intending to …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … Brunton and Joseph Fayrer on the comparative effects of cobra venom on animal and plant tissue. The …
Insectivorous plants
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Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
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- … and Joseph Fayrer shared their research on the effect of cobra poison on animal and plant tissue …
