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Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … & was able to work, how I sh d . have to modify the “Origin”, & how much the views on all …
  • … something. For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a …
  • … the reading public. It is hard to remember now that Origin was not the book that Darwin …
  • … Selection ' ), and assumed that that would displace Origin, and remove the need for any …
  • … to keep his resolution of ‘ not wasting more time on the origin ’, and saw the second English …
  • … a bit for I must prepare a new edit. of that everlasting origin, & I am sick of correcting.— …
  • … each subsequent edition he not only became reconciled to Origin’s independent existence, but …
  • … Introduction to the Online Variorum of Darwin's Origin of Species ). Not all the changes …
  • … for several second edition changes including on the origin of domestic dogs , but the change …
  • … to Alfred Russel Wallace in the concluding summary (Origin 2d ed., p. 484), a revised estimate of …
  • … supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.” ( Origin 2d ed, p. 481).   …
  • … I mean to leave all future Editions of the “Origin” (as far as I can tell) in its present state with …
  • … 1860, a ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin had come on the market. It …
  • … (Read more on Darwin's additions to the US edition of Origin here .) Principal …
  • … key correspondent for the first set of revisions to Origin , Asa Gray, who masterminded the US …
  • … their hooves falling off. Darwin added the account to  Origin  3d ed. , p. 12.  Its …
  • … not made at all - for a reconstruction of the list see ' Origin : the lost changes for the …
  • … This reminds me that I am, as it were, reading the “Origin” for the first time, for I am correcting …
  • … English edition would be needed , he had already revised Origin for a second French edition.  …
  • … I rejoice that I passed over whole subject in the Origin, for I shd. have made a precious mess of it …
  • … I have, also, had to correct a new Edit. of my “Origin”, & this has taken me six week, for …
  • … Wilhelm von Nägeli, resulting in a substantial addition ( Origin 5 th ed, pp 151–3).   Nägeli …
  • … Advertisement Sixth & Cheap Edition of the Origin of Species (...... thousandth …
  • … trust that in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin. Darwin had been …
  • … ran to twelve pages.  Even the title changed, from On the Origin of Species , to the snappier …
  • … of Doom’ (who is stupidity) may raise about the ‘Origin of Species’—it will remain fresh & …
  • … my name is known only because it occurs in the ‘origin’ and learned scholars have decided that …
  • … and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of  Origin (pp. 377–8) he argued that, …
  • … Darwin had been arguing on this head since long before Origin was written, had questioned …

On the Origin of Species

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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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  • … in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise On the origin of species by means of natural selection. …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … his intention to prepare a second German edition of Origin (Bronn trans. 1863); he asked whether …
  • … to Darwin for possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. …
  • … that are incorporated in the second German edition of Origin , but that do not occur in the third …
  • … 1.  p. 2. 2. CD retained this sentence in Origin 4th ed., p. xiv, n., but modified it …
  • … 9.  p. 29. This sentence also appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 19. 10.  p. 29. This sentence …

New material added to the American edition of Origin

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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…

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  • … sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp. i–xi) New …
  • … pp. 426–32) Introduction Soon after Origin was published, Darwin received a …
  • … book. Indeed, by early in January D. Appleton & Co. had Origin in type—taken from the first …
  • … sceptical of Baden Powell’s suggestion that he prefix to Origin a list of authors who had …
  • … Hooker that he was preparing a ‘historical sketch’ for Origin that cited those naturalists who …
  • … the 2250 copies resulting from three separate printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 …
  • … This ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin was available in July 1860 (see [Gray] …
  • … in a somewhat modified form, to the third edition of Origin , published in March 1861 (see …
  • … was to provide the American public with an edition of the Origin in some respects even ahead of …
  • … I fear imperfect, sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species . The great …
  • … that the same forms have not been perpetuated since the origin of all things. Geoffroy seems to have …
  • … valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the origin of Life. Who can explain what is …
  • … So that every individual organic being starts from a common origin. If we look even to the two main …
  • … 1 The pagination of the American edition of Origin does not correspond to that of the English …
  • … The change was made to the text of the second edition of Origin ( Origin 2d ed., p. 481). It …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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  • … Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to …
  • … twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in …
  • … 1859, Darwin wrote to Murray describing his work on the origin of species, how much was left to do, …
  • … (& they are many) who care for the curious problem of the origin of all animate forms.’ …
  • … me! ’ Although Murray was committed to publishing Origin, he sought the opinion of the editor …
  • … on 1 October, noting in his journal that the ‘Abstract on Origin of species’ had taken 13 months and …
  • … Murray sent Darwin a bound ‘specimen copy’ of On the origin of species by means of natural …
  • … to Darwin’s wish, presentation copies of Origin were distributed before the publication date. …
  • … by the wise & cheerful bigots. ’ After finishing Origin, Darwin told Lyell on 20 …
  • … from Murray on 24 November that the ‘whole Edition’ of Origin sold on the first day, and that a …

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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  • … the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how …
  • … people, both before and after the publication of On the Origin of Species . As he was preparing …
  • … A circle of friends and experts After Origin of Species was published in 1859, …
  • … and acquaintances. Reading the correspondence alongside Origin provides insight into Darwin’s …
  • … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species . 1859. London: John …
  • … Darwin included in this discussion of slave-making ants in Origin . Letter 2413 …
  • … of his explorations. Darwin notes that his own remarks in Origin on the instincts of slave-making …
  • … parasitic behavior of slave-making ants in Chapter VII of Origin  as an example of how animals …
  • … the weakest die. After reading Chapter VII of Origin and Charles Darwin’s letters …

Review: The Origin of Species

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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…

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  • … - by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of …
  • … the chain is logically traceable back to a local origin in a single stock, a single pair, or a …
  • … Nature through a series of intermediate forms, community of origin is inferred, and all the forms, …
  • … the individuals of a species, and also the idea of a local origin—supposing, instead, that each …
  • … and perpetuation of species, to a supernatural for their origin. The theory of Agassiz …
  • … of Agassiz, referring as it does the phenomena both of origin and distribution directly to the …
  • … its application was indirect: that is, the community of origin had to be inferred from the likeness; …
  • … shown or reasonably inferred to be compatible with a common origin. And the usual concurrence of the …
  • … stand against mere naturalism. Even if the doctrine of the origin of species through natural …
  • … remarks: ‘ I have discussed the probable origin of domestic pigeons at some, yet quite …
  • … difference can be shown to be compatible with community of origin, and explained through natural …
  • … even if his theory fails in the endeavor to explain the origin or diversity of species. …

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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  • … in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise  On the origin of species by means of natural …
  • … and ponies. He included a discussion of this research in  Origin , pp. 163–7, as examples of the …
  • … the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. The writing of Origin After the theory of …
  • …  published in 1868 but occupies only a few pages in  Origin . His observations and experiments on …
  • … opinions a naturalist may have adopted with regard to the origin and variation of species, every …
  • … provide an interesting record of the process of seeing Origin  through the press and of Darwin’s …
  • … Darwin next considered calling the work ‘An essay on the origin of species and varieties’ (letters …
  • … [1859] ), but finally decided on the title ‘ On the origin of species by means of natural …
  • … 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley Wells that Origin  was published; from there Darwin …
  • … attacks. Adam Sedgwick’s negative response to  Origin  was not surprising, but it …
  • … for Lyell lay in the implications of the theory for the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on …
  • … By the middle of November, the first reviews of  Origin  began to appear. One in the  Athenæum …
  • … At Murray’s trade sale of 22 November, orders for  Origin  exceeded by 250 the 1250 copies of the …
  • … till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.’ ( Origin , p. 184). The passage was …
  • … in the second edition was the inclusion of a comment on  Origin  by a ‘celebrated author and …
  • … the flurry of activity surrounding the publication of  Origin , Darwin took great interest in the …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … changes and additions for a fifth edition of  On the origin of species  ( Origin ). By the close …
  • … a bit for I must prepare a new edit. of that everlasting origin, & I am sick of correcting’ ( …
  • … & was able to work, how I d.  have to modify the “Origin”, & how much the views on all …
  • … to occupy him for many years to come. Revising Origin Carl von  Nägeli and …
  • … of the new edition that countered Nägeli’s thesis ( Origin  5th ed., pp. 151–7). Fleeming …
  • … favourable trait, then its perpetuation would be assured ( Origin  5th ed., pp. 103–4). The …
  • … earth A further modification to the new edition of  Origin  was the result of …
  • … to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin had argued ( Origin , pp. 377–8) that plant species …
  • … of tropical species was a difficulty for his theory ( Origin  4th ed., pp. 450–1). Croll’s theory, …
  • … tropical species could survive would always exist. In  Origin  5th ed., pp. 450–61, Darwin …
  • … Andrew Crombie Ramsay, William Whitaker, and others ( Origin  5th ed., pp. 352–4). Later in the …
  • … that the few sentences which I have sent to press in the Origin about the age of the world will do …
  • … Darwin had completed revisions of the ‘everlasting old Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] …
  • … were Wallace’s reasons for believing in the providential origin and destiny of humans. Responding to …
  • … controversy over his work. The fifth edition of  Origin , published in June, formed the basis for …
  • … for Darwin learned that a third French edition of  Origin  had already been prepared without his …
  • … for pangenesis, which of course has no relation to the Origin— Her motive being, I believe, because …
  • … burden of their superstition … the appearance of your “Origin of Species” formed a real crisis in my …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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  • … John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s  Origin of species , printing off another …
  • … ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). Origin : reactions and reviews But it was …
  • … that members of the scientific community found in  Origin  in the twelve months after its …
  • … Bronn, expressed their concerns about the question of the origin of life itself, which the theory …
  • … divergence. Andrew Murray challenged the explanation of the origin and distribution of blind cave …
  • … letters; several were considered in future editions of  Origin . William Henry Harvey wondered, in …
  • … H. Huxley 1860a). Darwin had long reflected on the origin of sterility between incipient …
  • … Darwin himself well recognised and fully anticipated in  Origin , several major criticisms arose …
  • … though he had not discussed this problem explicitly in  Origin  — only one sentence, he told Lyell …
  • … vol. 8 Appendix VI. Wilberforce’s review of  Origin , published in the  Quarterly Review …
  • … controversy over evolution theory. The response to  Origin  by theologians, however, was …
  • … Essays and reviews  in January 1860 as to that of  Origin  itself. This volume of seven essays, …
  • … . Although intended to counter the powerful opposition to  Origin  in America by Louis Agassiz and …
  • … preoccupied in 1860 with his critics and the reception of  Origin . This work was, after all, only …
  • … work intended to buttress the compressed arguments of  Origin . Many of the letters of 1860 …
  • … of Wallace’s manuscript and the subsequent drafting of  Origin ), and he wrote up anew a chapter …
  • … on which Darwin worked in the months after publishing  Origin . Turning to pursue a number of …
  • … the results of the orchid study in 1862. Back to the origin of sex: primroses and cowslips …
  • … of primroses and cowslips, which Darwin had discussed in  Origin  in regard to whether the oxlip, …
  • … the fact that he cared ‘more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world’, he told …
  • … meant interrupting his precious studies. Expanding Origin His work was also halted …

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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  • … Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of …
  • … “did our language commence with singing—is this the origin of our pleasure in music—do monkeys howl …
  • … man’s higher nature and an instrument of his reason. Its origin was divine, and its development more …
  • … lectures delivered several years after Darwin’s Origin of Species , Max Müller asserted that …
  • … selection” ( Descent  1: 61). Debates about the origin of language are still ongoing. Are …
  • … Farrar, Frederic William. 1860. An essay on the origin of language, based on modern researches, …
  • … N. Trübner. Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1866. On the origin of language . London: N. Trübner. …
  • … of Chicago Press. Contemporary debates on the origin of language Bickerton, …

The "wicked book": Origin at 157

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Origin is 157 years old.  (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859.  To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…

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  • Origin is 157 years old.  (Probably) the most famous book in science was …
  • … are letters from the key players in the drama surrounding Origin’ s publication: Alfred Russel …
  • … emerging ideas, and Thomas Huxley who became Origin ’s best known defender. Most of the …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of  Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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  • … his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of On the origin of species  ( Origin ). Darwin …
  • … Darwin’s American publisher for a revised edition of  Origin . Closer to home, Darwin’s theory …
  • … Towards Variation Since the publication of  Origin  in November 1859, Darwin had …
  • … two chapters of the ‘big book’ on species of which  Origin  was an abstract; but when he completed …
  • … much of Darwin’s working time since the publication of Origin. Although he was still debating …
  • … at its completion is palpable. A new edition of Origin There had been, however, …
  • … from John Murray that stocks of the third edition of  Origin  were exhausted. Darwin replied the …
  • … daily at my next book; but this will be now stopped by the Origin. Natural Hist. progresses so …
  • … 22 December [1866] ). The fourth edition of  Origin  also incorporated the work of some of …
  • … of divine design. Finally, the new edition of  Origin  allowed Darwin to respond to his …
  • … in his works, reviews, and lectures, published since the “Origin,” in which he strenuously opposes …
  • … book with gracious thanks: ‘You confer on my book, the “Origin of Species”, the most magnificent …
  • … letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1866] ). The  Origin in Germany Further …
  • … to translate Darwin’s works, including a new edition of  Origin . A son of the publisher Friedrich …
  • … the previous translation. Two German editions of  Origin , translated by Heinrich Georg …
  • … by Asa Gray in trying to secure a new American edition of  Origin . Gray had negotiated the …
  • … Variation  and preparing a fourth edition of  Origin , Darwin still found time in the spring and …
  • … of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, had held forth against  Origin  (J. D. Hooker 1866a, pp. 50, 75–6). …
  • … ‘adaptation view’ was in fact consistent both with the origin of species by natural selection, and …
  • … remarks were prompted by several recent reviews in which  Origin  had been criticised for …
  • … Although it was too late to alter the fourth edition of  Origin , Darwin did insert Spencer’s …
  • … offering Müller a copy of the second German edition of  Origin . Müller was happy to receive all …
  • … were added to  Variation , the fifth edition of  Origin , and Darwin’s later botanical works. …
  • … receive a pre-publication copy of the fourth edition of  Origin , and within a few weeks of …
  • … as a reason for his decision to delay the publication of  Origin  until November the distraction …

Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I

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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared.  Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…

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  • … problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared.  Everyone from the …
  • … England after the Beagle voyage and the publication of Origin, came from those, like pigeon …
  • … never published, but parts were repurposed not just for Origin , but for several other …
  • … judge .’  The full title as published was: On the origin of species by means of natural selection …
  • … Heinrich Georg Bronn, working on a German translation of Origin , Darwin explained his thinking …
  • … same.) By the time of the third English edition of Origin, Darwin was impelled to include …
  • … to John Edward Gray, who Darwin exclaimed understood Origin ‘ no more than a pig does ’. …
  • … such superficial objections will be forgotten. ( Origin 3d ed., pp. 84–5).   …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • … had weathered the storm that followed the publication of  Origin of species , and felt cautiously …
  • … for his theory that he had promised in the preface of  Origin . But, important as it was to …
  • … in the efficacy of his theory. The third edition of Origin That is not to say that …
  • … and augment support for the views presented in  Origin . Having learned from his publisher John …
  • … editions, that included a discussion of works pre-dating  Origin  that contained views on species …
  • … and selection of variations. Although sales of  Origin  began to decline later in the year, …
  • … correspondents, as he had done since the publication of Origin , that his theory, like the wave …
  • … that Darwin was pleased that the methodology followed in  Origin  was singled out for praise in …
  • … learned of Mill’s view that the reasoning throughout  Origin  was ‘in the most exact accordance …
  • … highly critical and, Darwin felt, unfair review of  Origin , he had nursed a growing animosity …
  • … hasten the wider acceptance of the theories set forth in  Origin  ( see letter to P. L. Sclater, …

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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  • … in 1868 but occupies only a few pages in Origin. His observations and experiments on bees’ cells …
  • … provide an interesting record of the process of seeing Origin  through the press and of Darwin’s …
  • … Darwin next considered calling the work ‘An essay on the origin of species and varieties’ (letters …
  • … [1859] ), but finally decided on the title ‘On the origin of species by means of natural selection, …
  • … 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley Wells that Origin  was published; from there Darwin …
  • … attacks. Adam Sedgwick’s negative response to  Origin  was not surprising, but it …
  • … for Lyell lay in the implications of the theory for the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on …
  • … By the middle of November, the first reviews of  Origin  began to appear. One in the  Athenæum …
  • … At Murray’s trade sale of 22 November, orders for  Origin  exceeded by 250 the 1250 copies of the …
  • … till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.’ ( Origin , p. 184). The passage was …
  • … in the second edition was the inclusion of a comment on  Origin  by a ‘celebrated author and …

Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison

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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage.  He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…

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  • …   Darwin made many changes to the text of Origin across different editions as he …
  • … ‘I mean by this expression’ he later explained in Origin (p.143), ‘that the whole organisation …
  • … of the eyes and not the fur, and in the first edition of Origin , Darwin stated that ‘cats with …
  • … was not water-tight however, and by the third edition of Origin , Darwin had already diluted the …
  • … and substituted for ‘correlation of growth’ in Origin 5 th and 6 th editions.  As he …
  • … mentioned Tait’s assertion in the 6 th edition of Origin (p. 9), but a few years later, as he …
  • … correlation.  His go-to list from the first edition of Origin onwards included sheep, pigs, dogs …
  • … small feet, and those with long beaks large feet ’ ( Origin p. 12). While he had first …
  • … was relieved to be able to include in the third edition of Origin a detailed case, sent to him …
  • … raising, as they alone have a good chance of living." ( Origin 3d ed. p. 12). ‘I …

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…

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  • … if I noted any sort of facts bearing on the question of the origin of species; & this I have …
  • … during the Beagle voyage, ‘ it treats on the origin of varieties of our domestic animals and …
  • … abstract of his big book that would be published as the Origin of Species in November 1859. …
  • … drawing and painting as was the case with the draft of Origin . Even when Darwin realised …
  • … ’ In 1860, he had declared that he intended to leave Origin as it was (except for corrections) …
  • … and self-fertilisation , just as he had done when writing Origin . He also allowed substantial …

Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online

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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…

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  • … To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species , the full transcripts and …
  • … supporting William Dwight Whitney’s view of the origin of language against Friedrich Max Müller, for …
  • … geology, and had been instrumental in the publication of Origin of species , despite enduring …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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  • … the rest of the year. 'Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' …
  • … excessive caution in expressing any judgment on Species or origin of man’. Darwin’s concern about …
  • … antiquity would ‘horrify the world’ far more than  Origin had (see  Correspondence  vol. 8, …
  • … other animals’ and that he had made this suggestion in  Origin  with the famous line: ‘Light will …
  • … change. In this context, Lyell’s discussion of the origin of species particularly dismayed …
  • … 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, and the origin of species particularly, worried …
  • … ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of  Origin , wrote to Falconer: ‘You would …
  • … claimed the ‘whole credit of making out the derivation or origin of species’, Darwin considered …
  • … primordial form, into which life was first breathed’ ( Origin , p. 484). Owen preferred Jean …
  • … process.— It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of …
  • … sly advantage to quote Lyells  amended verdict on the Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 20 April …
  • … 14 May 1863 ). The foreign reception of  Origin  was reflected not only in awards, but in …
  • … which included a generally favourable discussion of  Origin  with what Darwin called ‘prudent …
  • … Huxley’s assertion, first made in his 1860 review of  Origin , that in order to prove the …
  • … it was selected for or whether, as he had argued in  Origin  (p. 245), it was ‘incidental on other …
  • … he read his orchid paper, anything that ‘savours of the “Origin” is not at all palatable!’ ( letter …
  • … indispensibility of intercrossing to natural selection in  Origin , pp. 96–109, and he continued …
  • … triumphantly informed Hooker that an Italian edition of  Origin  was being prepared, which would …
  • … would not return at once to gathering more support for  Origin , or to the observations and …
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