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From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…

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  • … Woods and Woods 1997). CD had remarked on the birds’ tame behaviour in his Journal of researches …
  • … information, data, scientific description breeding behaviour descent fauna humanity …

Darwin and dogs

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Darwin was almost always in the company of dogs. Nina, Spark, Pincher, and Shiela. Snow, Dash, Bob, and Bran. The beloved terrier Polly (right). They were Darwin's constant companions at home and in the field, on walks and in sport, in his study and…

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  • … of study. Darwin observed their variations in breed and behaviour, their adaptation to specific …
  • … to run down hare. Darwin also studied the social behaviour of dogs, noting their …
  • … wrongful behavior, and such memories would clash with their social instincts. Conscience thus arose …
  • … of feeling, he argued, formed the foundation of moral behaviour in humans. Inspired partly by …

Human Nature

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The early 1870s were a turning point in the global debate about human evolution, with deep implications for science, colonial expansion, industrial progress, religious belief, and ethical and philosophical debate. Darwin’s correspondence from this period…

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  • … and scientists still disagree about the evolution of moral behaviour, religious temperament, …
  • … evolutionary, understanding of the development of human behaviour. The irony of this was not lost on …
  • … an exhaustive survey of sexual characteristics and emotional behaviour in the animal kingdom; he …
  • … were often accompanied by lengthy descriptions of the social contexts in which facts were recorded, …
  • … to Darwin’s views of human nature has focussed on ‘social Darwinism’ and the eugenics movement that …

Interview with Randal Keynes

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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

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  • … 11. Darwin's support for the church as a social institution Dr White: Some …
  • … in Britain at the time; and the church and chapels as social institutions. If you look at belief and …
  • … other gentry in the village, that education was the greatest social need for the poor people - the …
  • … church in the community, he was supporting the church as a social institution. I think, also, he was …
  • … values; there was no difficulty there. So the church was a social institution to be supported …
  • … perhaps, more than he did - towards right thinking, right behaviour, and so on, and I think that is …
  • … well of human nature. I think he thought we were basically social and helpful to each other, and …

2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM

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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…

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  • … Gazette was pleased that the donors also encompassed all social classes, ‘for in a memorial to …
  • … phenomena of evolutionary variation and adaptation, animal behaviour, sexual dimorphism, protective …

St George Jackson Mivart

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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…

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  • … the fierce loyalty of his friends, and contemporary codes of behaviour in scientific society. It has …
  • … However, for men in Hooker’s, Huxley’s, and Darwin’s social position, it was a tricky business, and …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … described the locations of the fossils and the habitats and behaviour of the living species he had …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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  • … in London from where they could easily enjoy metropolitan social life. This meant that they (and …
  • … ) made him unable to travel to many scientific meetings and social events in the capital. As a …
  • … according to conventional norms of professional middle-class behaviour. The importance that Darwin …

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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  • … composer, had provided Darwin with observations on worm behaviour, such as the rustling noise made …
  • … 19 July 1881 ) was also published in the Journal of Social Science , together with other …
  • … ed., pp. 191–2). Darwin was often asked to support social and political causes. He expressed …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … showing kinship with animals at every level of structure and behaviour. Descent  was …
  • … Times  rebuked Darwin for undermining the foundations of social order, namely ‘those elementary …
  • … attributed to natural selection what was properly due to ‘Social Selection’. Moral progress, he held …
  • … arose in humans through a conflict between enduring social feelings and more fleeting desires and …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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  • … Darwin excused himself for reasons of health from various social activities, even the opportunity to …
  • … suggested that  Frankland’s experiments showed that the behaviour of the bullfinch was instinctive …
  • … ( letter from Mary Treat, 2 December 1874 ). The social breadth of the network that Darwin …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … replies from Wallace and others, who suggested that the behaviour arose from some association …
  • … ants’ path without harming them, to determine whether the behaviour was caused by a disturbing smell …
  • … Darwin and his family continued to support the church as a social institution. They ran into …

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…

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  • … way of life on the disposition and temper, manners   and behaviour, intellects, laws and customs, …
  • … 15b ——. 1842.  Notes of a traveller on the social and political state of France, Prussia, …

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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  • … I had not been intending to before – it was the mutinous behaviour of the crew of the Hippomanes …
  • … merely to remark that my subsequently enounced doctrines of social economy – shewed – that I …
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