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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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- … is, as usual, hermaphrodite, but I had observed some minute parasites adhering to it, & these …
- … animal kingdom, namely, bisexual individuals impregnated by parasites simply of the male sex, which …
- … males of Alcippe away, believing them to be crustacean parasites. ‘Subsequently, a more careful …
Fool's experiments
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‘I love fools' experiments. I am always making them’, was one of the most interesting things the zoologist E. Ray Lankester ever heard Darwin say. ‘A great deal might be written as comment on that statement’, Lankester later recorded, but he limited…
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- … have a notion (no, I have firm conviction!) that they are parasites in early youth on cryptogams!! …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … comments on the variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in Lychnis diurna. …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … were minute, rudimentary organisms, living virtually as parasites within the carapace of the females …
