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Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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  • … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
  • … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
  • … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
  • … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
  • … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
  • … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
  • … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
  • … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
  • … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
  • … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
  • … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
  • … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
  • … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
  • … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
  • … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
  • … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
  • … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
  • … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
  • … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
  • … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
  • … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
  • … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
  • … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
  • … by H.N.B. Erskine Wilson, Edward 8 Nov …
  • … not found Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 …
  • … letter not found Wilson, Edward 22 Feb …
  • … send query around Wilson, Edward 14 Oct …

A tale of two bees

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Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…

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  • much ahead of his time whenin a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilsons plan
  • probably destroy some native insect & I wish M r . Wilson would leave the Australian fauna

3.13 Edwards 'Representative Men'

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< Back to Introduction A sequel to Portraits of Men of Eminence appeared in 1868, published by the London firm of Alfred William Bennett and again edited by Edward Walford. It was titled Representative Men in Literature, Science, and Art. The…

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  • … London firm of Alfred William Bennett and again edited by Edward Walford. It was titled …
  • … As the preface to Representative Men is dated December 1867, Edwards’s new photograph must have …
  • … of image Ernest Edwards 
 date of creation 1867 
 computer-readable date c. …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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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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  • … Darwin had sent the manuscript to the publisher in February 1867, and had spent a good deal of that …
  • … Record. Dallas had begun the work in November 1867 and had expected to complete it in a fortnight. …
  • … contempt of me. I feel convinced it is by Owen’. John Edward Gray, a colleague of Richard Owen’s in …
  • … to throw off thick dictionaries by flexing. On 5 April , Edward Blyth, who had supplied Darwin …
  • … Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward Hewitt reported that female …
  • … emotional expression. His questionnaire, first sent out in 1867, was circulated to remote parts of …
  • … in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ); Edward Wilson, a neighbour of Darwin’s, …
  • … for the philosophy of the future.’ Further afield, Edward Wilson remarked on 14 October …