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Mauro Galetti: profile of an ecologist
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Mauro Galetti solved Darwin’s puzzle of the ‘bright seeds’. This is what he told us about becoming an ecologist.
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- … or seed dispersal. I started collecting all kind of fruits in this wood and described for each …
- … traveling to new places to compare how plants disperse their fruits. This is relevant to …
- … naturalists, like Darwin, Ridley and van der Pijl, that some fruits ‘tried’ to mislead birds and …
- … to see whether any bird would come to eat its mimetic fruits. After many, many days, no success. In …
- … seeds. Nowadays, I continue studying the adaptations of fruits to dispersal, especially the ones …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … file-default"}}]] Some plant species have evolved fruits with no nutritive rewards – …
- … do they get away with it? ‘One strategy is to hide small fruits and seeds among leaves that are …
- … seeds resembling fleshy ornithochoric (i.e. bird-dispersed) fruits, so-called “mimetic fruits”.’ …
- … deceive naïve birds by mimicking similar-looking fleshy fruits. Galetti listed dozen of species …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … to a single spot. Another secondary use is the production of fruits which afford nourishment to …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … years to work for science and a long time yet to enjoy the fruits of a life that has been so full of …
Darwin and religion in America
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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
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- … the theory of evolution, and bearing many and various fruits including abortion, drugs, alcohol, …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … fruit— The unusually hot summer has ripened almost all fruits exceptionally— We got out to walk over …
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…
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- … a circle. Of late some such abortive organs in flowers and fruits are found to have a use, though …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … instead of the welfare of their flocks – extorting first fruits and tithes from the poor people, …
