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Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … honorary president ( letter to T. L. Brunton, 17 December 1881 ). The organization had its first …
Fool's experiments
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‘I love fools' experiments. I am always making them’, was one of the most interesting things the zoologist E. Ray Lankester ever heard Darwin say. ‘A great deal might be written as comment on that statement’, Lankester later recorded, but he limited…
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- … was one of the most interesting things the zoologist E. Ray Lankester ever heard Darwin say. ‘A …
- … The fool’s experiment that Darwin had described to Lankester involved placing under a bell jar some …
- … Hannay’s attempts to produce artificial diamonds in 1881, Darwin suggested a modification to the …
- … see whether bees would be attracted to them. Much later, in 1881, he suggested that adding ‘ …
