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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's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … with hydropathic treatments at Malvern with Dr Gully, at Moor Park with Dr Edward Wickstead Lane, …
- … Colp 1977, pp. 43-6). He underwent hydropathic treatments at Moor Park, under Edward Wickstead Lane, …
- … 7). He also stayed at Lane’s new establishment in Sudbrook Park, Surrey, at the end of June 1860 ( …
Darwin's illness
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Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … except 5 th vol. 19 Mungo Parks travels [Park 1799] Feb 12 Sir H. Davy consolations …
- … 30 th Notices on the East Indian Archipelago [Moor 1837].— Skimmed. Coral & Transmut. …
- … night's dream ; Hamlet ; Othello ]. Mansfield Park [Austen 1814]. Sense & S [Austen …
- … (3 d series) full of ill-attested stories. 25 Moor & Loch by Colquehoun [Colquhoun …
- … vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun 1840] …
- … [Other eds.] 119: 9b ——. 1814. Mansfield Park: a novel . 3 vols. London. [Other eds.] …
- … . London. 128: 8 Colquhoun, John. 1840. The moor and the loch: containing practical …
- … by John Florio. London. [Other eds.] 119: 13b Moor, J. H. 1837. Notices of the Indian …
- … . 2 vols. Paris. [Other eds.] *119: 3v. Park, Mungo. 1799. Travels in the interior …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
