From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1864-5] |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580F |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Unidentified |
Proteus
Summary
Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its subject is a scientist who walked a tight line between arts and sciences. Is the film a documentary or an artistic vision? As our guest speaker Nick Hopwood…
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- … Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its …
- … of feminine works.” (Haeckel to Darwin, 2 January 1864) Haeckel’s radiolarian …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, Darwin claimed that sexual …
- … (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). Darwin’s theory of …
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
