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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … work was given by Hooker in an evening speech on insular floras at the same meeting. Prior to the …
- … friends and correspondents. Hooker’s research on alpine floras, Henry Walter Bates’s article on …
- … The actual subject of Hooker’s address was insular floras, a topic of long-standing interest to both …
- … Darwin had consistently argued against migration by means of continental extension, as proposed by …
- … host of botanical objections. The preparation of his insular floras lecture offered a new occasion …
- … In the end, Hooker argued that both theories, continental extension and occasional transport, faced …
- … Hooker also asserted that the facts regarding oceanic floras strongly supported ‘Mr. Darwin’s …
- … works, including his own essays on Arctic and Australian floras, Darwin’s Orchids and papers on …
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