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Barnacles

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…

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  • … as a man of scientific merit ). Barnacles and speciation Darwin’s work on …

Variation under domestication

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A fascination with domestication Throughout his working life, Darwin retained an interest in the history, techniques, practices, and processes of domestication. Artificial selection, as practiced by plant and…

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  • … century, offered a ready and obvious model of how speciation under natural selection may have taken …
  • … homed in on pigeons as a prime example of the processes of speciation and of the extent of variation …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … from Bory, when he published in 1822 that varieties become species through a constant process of …
  • … and said, which are the main views on the transformation of species today? And he gave a fair …
  • … in 1858, that the question of whether we can explain speciation in natural terms is widely open and …
  • … precisely because he has a theory equating domestication to speciation and claiming that in the past …
  • … our darling. Yet, she writes in the preface to the Origin of Species that the worst of all sins is …

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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  • … Watson argued for the concept of ‘convergence’ of species to join that of divergence. Andrew Murray …
  • … in addition to questioning gradual versus saltatory species change, how natural selection could ever …
  • … long reflected on the origin of sterility between incipient species but knew that much work was …
  • … more likely to come from studies of crossing among plant species and varieties than from animal …
  • … of a vast amount of variation among plant and animal species on which natural selection could …
  • … he cared ‘more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world’, he told Oliver he was …
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