Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1865. An introduction to entomology; or, elements of the natural history of insects … of their metamorphoses, food, strategems, habitations, societies, motions, noises, hybernation, instinct, etc. etc. 8th edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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- … societies, motions, noises, hybernation, instinct, etc. etc. 8th edition. London: …
Lemoine, Albert (1824–74)
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- … parole (1865) and l’Habitude et l’instinct (1875). Dictionnaire universel de contemporains …
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 28 July 1877
Summary
Thanks BvC for his letter and will read the references concerning instinct.
"I can see that the discussion of the Philosophy of Evolution is at present very important."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
Date: | 28 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11077F |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [after 9 March 1871]
Summary
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 60–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7562 |
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- … Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct. …
- … the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct could be made matter of actual experience by …
- … the thought of a past breach of the instinct any more than the sufferings of hunger or of …
- … at the failure to act on a permanent instinct It seems to me that mine is a vera causa …
From George Harris 10 February 1874
Summary
Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.
Author: | George Harris |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9280 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
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- … nests as evidence of variation of instincts. Their collection of bees’ combs. Praises ARW’ …
- … one point of view, viz to show that instincts vary, so that selection could work on & …
- … improve them. Few other instincts, so to speak, can be preserved in a museum— Many thanks …
- … Isles. CD’s notes on the nest-building instincts of birds are in DAR 205.11. He discussed …
To Auguste Forel 15 October 1874
Summary
Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.
Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
Date: | 15 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9680 |
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- … July 23/59/’ and marked ‘Mistaken Instinct’, is in DAR 205.11 (2): 96. CD had recommended …
- … the contest with the other very powerful instinct of preserving & carrying their coccoons …
- … empty. According as the one or other instinct was the stronger in each individual ant, so …
- … of sight. Now here I think we have one instinct in contest with another & mistaken one. …
- … The first instinct being to carry the empty coccoons out of the nest, & it would have been …
From Edouard Claparède 6 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;
criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.
Author: | Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.1: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3715 |
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- … deux exemples. Dans le chapitre sur l’instinct des abeilles, M lle . Royer avait remplacé …
- … me cite two examples. In the chapter on the instincts of bees, Mlle. Royer throughout her …
- … 1987 , pp. 150–2). CD discussed the cell-making instinct of hive-bees in chapter seven …
- … third edition of Origin , entitled ‘Instinct’ (pp. 245–56); he referred to ‘the three- …
- … p. 323). CD discussed the cell-making instinct of hive-bees in chapter seven of …
- … edition of Origin , which is entitled ‘Instinct’ (pp. 245–56); he referred to ‘the three- …
To John Stevens Henslow [1 April 1848]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [1 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167 |
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- … discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any …
- … there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for truth, or knowledge or discovery, …
- … of something same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that …
- … our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any …
To Nature 16 December 1879
Summary
Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.
Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 16 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | Nature, 8 January 1880, p. 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12359 |
From S. T. Preston 20 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.
Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12610 |
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- … that they originated in the social instincts (p. 132). Preston appears to be responding to …
- … or happiness, but in a deeply planted social instinct motivated by sympathy; most actions …
- … be admitted so far, that man has few instincts now (for external actions) which he cannot …
- … wished that man should be dominated by instinct (i.e. without rational motive ). Now (as …
- … any praise, because he acted by mere instinct or at random; and consequently could have …
From G. A. Gaskell 13 November 1878
Summary
Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".
Author: | George Arthur Gaskell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11744 |
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- … development of the moral sense, social instincts, and social virtues, the rate of increase …
- … For CD’s conclusions on the social instincts, see Descent 1: 97–8. The falling population …
- … in themselves immoral, or of immoral tendency, because social instinct is against them. …
- … But social instinct has, as you justly point out, been developed in favour of the general …
- … species; it follows, then, that if the general good conflicts eventually with an instinct, …
- … instinct will in time have to adjust itself to the new conditions. A physiological fact …
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 25 November 1877
Summary
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 393 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11254 |
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- … s criticisms (chapter 7). The chapter on instinct was chapter 8. The full quotation reads, …
- … error to suppose that the greater number of instincts have been acquired by habit in one …
- … unconscious, gradually taking the form of instincts, reflexes, and organic structures. For …
- … habit, or the inherited memory we call instinct; or whether again it be the reproduction …
- … Then I read on and came to the chapter on instinct—and on p. 206 was horrified to read “ …
- … clearly shown that the most wonderful instincts with which we are acquainted, namely those …
From J.-H. Fabre 3 January 1880
Author: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12398 |
To Jeffries Wyman 2 February 1866
Summary
Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 2 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4994 |
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- … modified his account of the cell-making instinct of the hive-bee to incorporate evidence …
- … problem of the hive-bee’s cell-building instinct, see Prete 1990 . René Antoine Ferchault …
- … view which we both I think take of all instincts. Your case of the 2 cells separated by a …
- … a result of successive modifications of instinct, see the letter from Jeffries Wyman, 11 …
To A. R. Wallace 20 October [1872]
Summary
Remarks about an enclosed specimen,
and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].
ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 20 Oct [1872] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8566 |
To G. J. Romanes 24 January 1881
Summary
Describes difficulty of obtaining pigs for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 24 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.580) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13024 |
To P. L. Sclater 11 November [1870]
Summary
Accepts PLS’s offer to read proofs of [Descent].
W. H. Hudson’s paper is interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 11 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7366 |
To Asa Gray 25 April [1860]
Summary
Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2767 |
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- … add much difficulty to work— The Reviewer takes a strange view of Instinct: he seems to …
- … regard intelligence as developed instinct; which I believe is wholly false. — …
- … I suspect he has never much attended to Instinct & minds of animals, except perhaps by …
- … Bowen] 1860a, p. 496). Speaking of instinct, the reviewer stated that ‘in the infinite …
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1858]
Summary
JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2228 |
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Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
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- … slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant …
- … of Species . 1859. London: John Murray. (See: Chapter 7 “Instinct”) Manuscripts …
- … p. 46, 52-59 Letters Letter Packet: Instinct and the Evolution of Mind …
- … would you characterize Darwin's central question regarding instinct and its relation to the …
- … this topic? 2. By what mechanism does Darwin believe instinct acts? How does this mechanism …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … final pieces of his grand puzzle as they came to him. Instinct: the problem of bees …
- … of divine design in nature. Darwin hypothesised that the instinct of the hive-bee to produce these …
- … 1858, even though he had completed a draft of the chapter on instinct the previous March. One …
- … the correspondence. I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth As …
- … certain extent; but, if I know myself, I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth’ ( …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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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- … letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 ). Instinct In February, Darwin …
- … definition recently advanced by Alfred Russel Wallace, that instinct was the performance of complex …
- … a letter from William Huggins on a case of inherited instinct in three generations of dogs, …
- … had occasion to reflect more personally on the power of instinct and inheritance when he was asked …
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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- … [A. P. de Candolle 1820] in Geolog. Soc. F. Cuvier on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read …
- … of science connected with Nat. Theol: [Brougham 1839] on instinct & animal intelligence very …
- … Erasmus 21 recommends me to read Reimeruss on instinct in German [Reimarius 1760] The …
- … “Resume analytique des observations par F. Cuvier sur l’instinct”—L’Institut 1839. p. 408 [Flourens …
- … [DAR *119: 11v.] The Philosoph. of Instinct & Reason by S. Bushnan. Longman. 5 s …
- … praised by Silliman poor Cyclop. of Anat.— Instinct by D r . Alison [W. P. Alison 1847]. No …
- … on Philosophy of Science [Whewell 1840].— Speculates on Instinct.— Lecons de Botanique …
- … [DAR *119: 18v.] D r . Etherington Observ. on Instinct [Etherington 1841–3]. Whittaker …
- … Tr. [Blumenbach 1792] —Rev. A. Wells Lectures on Instinct [Wells 1834] Cline on the …
- … th . Metzger Getreidarten [Metzger 1841] Alison on Instinct [W. P. Alison 1847]. 79 Art. …
- … 20a] 1847. Aug. 14 th . Flourens de l’instinct et l’intelligence des Animaux …
- … von Humboldt 1822] 19 th Couch Illustrations of Instinct [Couch 1847].— 25. Bunbury …
- … 1852]. Also hybrid-wheat [Hooker 1852].— Whately on Instinct—Pamphlet 1848 in Hort. Soc. …
- … eds.] *119: 15 Alison, William Pulteney. 1847. Instinct. In vol. 3, pp. 1–29, of Todd, …
- … Bushnan, John Stevenson. 1837. The philosophy of instinct and reason. Edinburgh. *119: 11v …
- … 119: 21b Couch, Jonathan. 1847. Illustrations of instinct deduced from the habits of …
- … *119: 23 Cuvier, Frédéric Georges. 1822. Instinct. In vol. 23, pp. 528–44, of Cuvier, …
- … Etherington, George F. 1841–3. Observations on instinct . 2 pts. Edinburgh and London. *119: …
- … analytique des observations de M. Frédéric Cuvier sur l’instinct et l’intelligence des animaux. …
- … *119: 9v., 11v. ——. 1845. De l’instinct et de l’intelligence des animaux. Résumé des …
- … 119: 1a ——. 1836. Observations upon the instinct of animals . London. [Darwin Pamphlet …
- … 119: 18b Wells, Algernon. 1834. On animal instinct . Colchester. 119: 4a …
- … Library.] 128: 10 Whately, Richard. 1847. On instinct. A lecture . Dublin. *128: 182 …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … his grand puzzle as they came to him. The chapter on instinct posed a number of problems for …
- … of divine design in nature. Darwin hypothesised that the instinct of the hive-bee to produce these …
- … 1858, even though he had completed a draft of the chapter on instinct the previous March. By …
- … certain extent; but, if I know myself, I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth’ …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, 13 December 1880 ). Instinct and worms After finishing …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … University Press. Pinker, Steven 1994. The language instinct: the new science of language …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
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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- … established that the general principle is, to differentiate instinct from automatism, and then to …
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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- … ‘an untenable and repulsive theory’, which the ‘instinct of humanity rejects’. ‘Mr. Darwin . . . …
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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- … and selection, noting how its every bone and muscle, instinct and habit, were fitted to run down …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … such, for instance, as the ‘absolute invariableness of instinct;’ an absolute want of intelligence …
- … asked by the Boston reviewers is, Why, when structure and instinct or habit vary— as they must have …
- … the gills of an aquatic animal converted into lungs, while instinct still compelled a continuance …
- … their heads under water after ceasing to be tadpoles. The instinct promptly changes with the …
- … yet furnished with wings, were suddenly inspired with the instinct of a bird, and precipitated …
- … that the higher brute animals have comparatively little instinct and no intelligence, is a heavy …
- … However, we are not so sure as is the critic that instinct regularly increases downward and …
- … is reduced to moderate proportions, we know of nothing in instinct surpassing that of an animal so …
- … ‘the human mind has become what it is out of a developed instinct,’ is a statement which Mr. Darwin …
- … been penned in inadvertence both of the very definition of instinct, and of everything we know of in …
Getting to know Darwin's science
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One of the most exciting aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the opportunity it gives to researchers to ‘get to know’ Darwin as an individual. The letters not only reveal the scientific processes behind Darwin’s publications, they give insight…
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- … Darwin’s early life and education, to the evolution of instinct and the mind, to the power of …
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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- … Dora Roberts reports an incidence of “misguided maternal instinct”, observed in her hen house. She …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … John Romanes, who was engaged in his own research on animal instinct and intelligence. ‘Frank’s son, …
- … cloth from defilement.’ Darwin had lengthy noteson animal instinct that he had originally intended …
- … argument for the existence of God, as it seems to me, is the instinct or intuition which we all (as …
Darwin on childhood
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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … horse..–– I had greatest horror of this story.––keen instinct against death.–– Some other …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …