To J. D. Hooker [29 March 1863]
Summary
CD regrets he used "creation" in Origin when he meant "appeared".
An Oken-like article in "Owenian style" in Athenæum.
Tropical plants continue to be troublesome.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4065 |
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … heard of ‘a few authentic exceptions’ ( Variation 2: 329), and still they kept coming . By …
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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- … de la Provence [Darluc 1782–6] 8vo. 1782. Tom I p. 303 to 329 gives account of migratory sheep of …
