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Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … those best situated to observe expressions made by children, people of different races, lunatics, …
- … at a new toy across the room.— 30v. (a) People, I think, do not frown when looking at …
- … Younger children, such as Annie now a year old, look at people with a degree of fixedness which …
- … 43v. Papa— Lizzy come & stay here. — Shant stay here. People say I’m man’s— stay in man’s room …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…
Interview with Emily Ballou
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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … I could have collected all of those and in a way – because people are more familiar with his longer …
- … that I could access things that maybe aren’t available for people who are writing a more traditional …
- … under? you know, he would examine closely things that other people might pass by and not look at. …
- … in life, and to be able to use it so as not to injure other people. And he was such a caring person …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…
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- … purpose has ceased to suggest design to instructed people, except in cases where the agency of man …
- … ‘ purpose has ceased to suggest design to instructed people, except in cases where the agency of …
- … wing, can hardly ‘ cease to suggest design to instructed people. ’ And surely, in coming at his …
Darwin on childhood
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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
Gaston de Saporta
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The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … fact that American faces were becoming less different and people were ‘nearly as indistinguishable …
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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- … As with Darwin’s study of poultry and pigeons, many other people were drawn into his researches. …
- … He writes as one who has given his theory to the world for people to make of it what they will. ‘You …
- … W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1859] ). Yet he desperately wanted people to accept his work. It was now his …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … accordingly. Letters conveyed public reaction to Darwin, as people who were often complete strangers …
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: the last word
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The Darwin Correspondence Project has now disbanded, having completed its work with the publication of volume 30.
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- … 2022. Since its foundation in 1974, more than ninety people were employed by or volunteered with …
Who we were
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Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in 1974. Some names are now lost to us, and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who has contributed in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of…
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- … Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first …
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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- … Darwin corresponded about slave-making ants with various people, both before and after the …
2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
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- … cut it in marble at his leisure for me. – such heaps of people want to know what you are like – & …
Northern Gabon
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Amazement
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- … Fang people's extreme amazement upon seeing a white man for the first time. …
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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- … see examples of letters to Darwin from nearly 250 different people, and letters he wrote to 150 more …
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
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Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s …
