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Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … joining state institutions and universities, or national and colonial authorities. In the nineteenth …
- … Class Darwin worked from a position of considerable wealth and social privilege. He also …
- … letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels “an inward dread of life …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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 naturally wished to have a savant at my elbow – in the position of a humble toadyish follower – …
- … questions – Was any alteration made in the position of the Kentledge, for taking on board the …
- … (Mr Hare replied) free people – having been freed by the Colonial laws of Java under the British …
- … – stated long since to have been emancipated under the Colonial law of Java – and now again produced …
- … on the S.E. rn Isle of the Chain as being the furthest position from that occupied by Mr H and …
- … himself – as being that person and occupying the same position, amidst the same circumstances. Hence …
- … during the time that Slavery was a legal institution in the Colonial department of the British …
- … – I shall now proceed at once to fortify my correct position and to give my soi-distant friend Mr …
- … cheerless situation (from which their removal to a better position would scarcely have been …
- … to give him all the support and aid – which I could in my position venture to afford – hence altho’ …
- … the Beagle – knowing as I do, that the exact Geographical position of Crockatooa Peak , the Grand …
- … his talents – and sustaining the dignity of his position ^to^ exact unnecessary and useless laws – …
- … a desert rock in the West Indian Seas – and worse still a Colonial Governor actually treated and …
- … – because – it has long been evident enough that the Colonial quarter of “Headquarters” have already …
- … Church? Do I not ex officio fill the unspeakably dignified position of a priest – among her children …
The expression of emotions
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Darwin’s work on emotional expression, from notes in his Beagle diary and observations of his own children, to questionnaires, and experiments with photographs, was an integral part of his broad research on human evolution. It provided one of the main…
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 in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … to draw on observations from a variety of domains, from the colonial frontier to the household, from …
- … of species (Mivart 1871)), Mivart tried to carve out a position between the new evolutionary …
- … care of a dear Wife & Daughters. How different from my position – that of a very old man, living …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
