Bishop, Henry Rowley. [1864]. The pilgrim of love: recitative and romance. London: Robert Cocks & Co.
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Huerkamp, Claudia. 1990. The making of the modern medical profession, 1800–1914. Prussian doctors in the nineteenth century. In German professions, 1800–1950, edited by Geoffrey Cocks and Konrad H. Jarausch. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … such as the horns on a stag or the spurs on a cock. Sexual selection, he wrote, depends 'not on …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … & looking gorgeous. I gave two seeds to a confounded old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; …
