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Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was …
- … sense of sympathy. Even though, as a member of a seafaring people, he could not understand Darwin’s …
- … 1864 he discovered that an epidemic had killed many of his people, including his father. Despite …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
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Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…
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- … that tended to survive, and to reproduce, and to make more people who were capable of doing the same …
- … there’s a little scholarly debate, and on the one side are people who say that Darwin couldn’t …
- … But that’s not what we find, say the critics. We can find people in the most debased circumstances, …
- … are as lowly as the rest of these cultures, so lowly people speak lowly languages. Now this is a …
- … missionary effort going in that part of the world with those people. So part of the surprise he was …
- … groups, it was because, for their own reasons, a number of people came to think that the idea of a …
- … and still being read with profit by scientifically engaged people now. Linguists can still often be …
- … Nearer to Darwin’s own day, I don’t think that most people who were already Darwinians just …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … French physiologist Guillaume Benjamin Armand Duchenne of people whose facial muscles were being …
- … The oldest daughter Henrietta is one of those people who grow most wonderfully on acquaintance. She …
- … most cordial, simple manners— They were all very charming people, so unaffected & kind, so …
- … her— The oldest daughter Henrietta is one of those people who grow most wonderfully on …
- … opposite the window & the sun shone cheerfully in all day— People sewed, or wrote, or scattered …
- … good bye to our most delightful visit & these dear, charming people—”I will never forgive you,” …
- … me, that we should be in advance of them!— As for Sauquoit people they are decidedly shabby— Not a …
4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … round the week before & distributing papers & talking to the people if allowed. In some …
- … about. I hope I have been worth while to my own dear people— but they are so good. Just at …
- … to cultivate my mind— & last to try & make up to my people for losing me— to show the …
- … am quite sure to begin with that it is not because of other people. If no human being was ever to …
- … is the difficulty I feel in looking in the face leaving my people. It will be giving it up. I can be …
Black Venus
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Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) on the film Vénus Noire (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2010) Sara Baartman has long been characterised as ‘Black Venus’, or ‘Vénus Noire’. The epithet encapsulates how her exploitation and objectification whilst alive…
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- … story of Sarah Baartman is the story of the African people…. It is the story of the loss of our …
- … of the ‘Hottentot Venus’ not black women or black people as a whole and audiences, whether in …
- … as ‘savage’. Such specificities also help explain why people were interested in seeing her at all. …
- … all too easy to make problematic assumptions that all black people were seen as the same simply …
Orchids
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Why Orchids? Darwin wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…
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- … ‘ The subject of propagation is interesting to most people, & is treated in my paper so that …
Expression
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Darwin's interest in emotional expression can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the different sounds and gestures among the peoples of Tierra del Fuego, and on his return from the voyage he started recording observations…
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … in terms of the vacuum that had been created – for some people – by the challenge to Christianity …
- … still be interpreted in ways that make sense to religious people and which are not seen to …
- … how Darwin uses the conversion motif when discussing people who have adopted his theory. And Darwin …
- … say, by Thomas Huxley or Ernst Haeckel ? are these people more typical of the manner in which …
- … that religion can give, or even that sense in which people look to the natural world and feel able …
- … as I say, it’s a kind of approximation, but for a lot of people, the unification comes from the fact …
- … that I mentioned earlier. I mean, I have sometimes heard people say Christianity is not a religion. …
- … you could take a figure like Isaac Newton, for whom many people, I think? he would be a kind of …
- … not things: they’re practises , they’re what people do. Dr White: Well, that’s a …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. …
- … present time. To complete the connection of these primitive people with the fossil ages, the French …
- … human races may perhaps be traced through the intervening people of the stone age, who were …
- … that he by no means expects to convince old and experienced people, whose minds are stocked with a …
- … belief nor unbelief. But your intellectually short-sighted people are apt to be preternaturally …
- … or the other of every mooted question. In fact, most people, and some philosophers, refuse to …
- … carried out, is doubtless tantamount to atheism. Yet most people believe that some were designed and …
- … is probably the popular conception. Perhaps most thoughtful people oscillate from the middle view …
Darwin soundbites
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From atheistical cats to old fogies in Cambridge, we've collected some of Darwin's pithier remarks - some funny, some serious - but all quotes from letters you can read in full here. We particularly like this one: Will you be so kind as…
How dangerous was Darwin?
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Discover Darwin’s dilemma and the background leading to the publication of a book that altered the course of scientific thinking. What was the impact of Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species? How were his ideas received in the popular press?
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- … Pupils explore the events that led to the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ and …
Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue
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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…
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Results of the Darwin Online Emotions Experiment
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Thanks to all who took part in our online emotions experiment – over 18,000 of you! The formal stage of the experiment is now over, but it will be staying online as an activity, so if you don’t want to know the results, look away now. If you’d like to…
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4.46 'Puck' cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction In 1885 Darwin made yet another posthumous appearance in the New York satirical magazine Puck – again in a religious context. ‘SHEOL’ referred to the recently published Revised edition of the Bible, which modified the text of…
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- … theology of the sulphurous sort’ – rejoiced that people would no longer be made miserable by a …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … the inheritance of mental and physical qualities would make people realise that their reproductive …
- … without legislation. In order to assess the probability that people would endure such restrictions, …
- … it & I regret it very much because there are so many people stupid enough to fancy or malicious …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
4.38 Franz Goedecker, caricature
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< Back to Introduction In a caricature by the German artist Franz Goedecker, Darwin stands in front of a desk, confronting a monkey with a face resembling his own. It holds his book on earthworms, and is squatting on a copy of a German translation,…
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- … powers in pandering to the malice or the stupidity of those people who do .’ Goedecker was …
