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Doing Darwin’s Experiments
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Darwin’s curiosity for the natural world meant he carried out experiments throughout his life. Try out his experiments in the class room and compare your results with his findings.
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- … Darwin wrote to thousands of correspondents and his letters and notebooks show us how he worked. …
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…
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … of his life was almost exclusively conducted. The flower garden, kitchen garden, hothouse , …
- … of the woodlands and meadows around his home. In his garden and greenhouses, he cultivated plants …
- … (1881), was based on observations made over decades in his garden. Many locations around …
- … nineteenth century, and the range they support today. The garden and grounds of Down House have …
- … 3 June [1857] : on the struggle for existence in his own weed garden. To Asa Gray, 5 …
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