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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…
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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- … female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, Darwin …
- … paper was read before the Linnean Society on 4 February 1869, but remained unpublished until it …
- … from family, friends, and colleagues. For the zoologist Alfred Newton, the achievement of the son …
- … theory of descent with modification’ ( letter from Alfred Newton, 29 January 1868 ). …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … expresses his Christian belief and Darwin discovers that Alfred Wallace has developed his own …
- … The contents of the package (an essay from New Guinea from Alfred Russel Wallace) throws Darwin into …
- … intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. / Let each man hope and believe …
- … were laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, near to those of Newton. [A setting of Proverbs, Chapter 13, …
- … 189 JANE LORING GRAY, LETTER TO HER SISTER, 1868 or 1869 190 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 8 MARCH …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … to the application of natural selection to humans from Alfred Russel Wallace and St George Jackson …
- … , the public debate over human evolution grew more heated. Alfred Russel Wallace had expressed …
- … vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His views were presented more fully in a …
- … comparative anatomist through his work on primates. In July 1869, Mivart published the first of a …
- … Albert Günther, Joseph Hooker, Rudolf Albert von Kölliker, Alfred Newton, Robert Swinhoe, and …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … for a US edition had been in place since December 1869, while German, Russian, French, and Dutch …
- … letters in August, on one occasion penning just two lines to Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘I am so giddy I …
- … `’the age of Darwin’’, as we now speak of the age of Newton’ ( letter from Napoleon de la Fleurière …
