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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. …
- … carried out during his student days in Edinburgh and later on board the Beagle , the monograph on …
- … considerable interest to mid-nineteenth century naturalists and approaching their classification …
- … that has remained a standard work in cirripede morphology and systematics. For Darwin personally, …
- … nomenclature, comprising both theoretical principles and technical facility with the methods of …
- … zoology stemmed from his years as a student in Edinburgh and, in particular, his contact with Robert …
- … (pp. 49–50), Darwin recalled: ‘Drs. Grant and Coldstream attended much to marine zoology, and I …
- … are numerous references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first scientific paper, …
- … minute Crustaceæ. Given this background and, in particular, his earlier researches in …
- … (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and tentatively identified this burrowing barnacle …
- … found attached to rocks. Yet from the absence of a shell and its unusual parasitic nature, Darwin …
- … stages in the larval development of this ‘Balanus’ and remarked on the resemblance of one stage to …
- … those of Crustacea, most naturalists had followed Linnaeus and Cuvier in classifying the cirripedes …
- … that a revaluation of the group, based on a systematic and anatomical comparison intra se and …
- … two papers, one on the marine invertebrate Sagitta and another on the Planariae, he began to …
- … single abnormal Cirripede, from the shores of South America, and was led, for the sake of comparison …
- … months Darwin pursued an anatomical study of pedunculated and sessile cirripedes, during which time …
- … keeper of the zoological collections at the British Museum and himself a cirripede expert, suggested …
- … own collection, arranged access to the museum’s specimens, and advised him on procuring other …
- … a study, it is helpful to review the science of systematics and some of the concerns of natural …
- … labour’ and this principle could be used to determine ‘lowness’ and ‘highness’ in particular groups, …
- … as higher. (a) If we consider the number of changes as highness , then Lernæa a mere reproductive …
- … leave case & glowworm— a curious case.— We then see that highness does not depend on perfection …
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