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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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- … was far more extensive than Darwin had anticipated. As a result, Descent , like Variation , …
- … the material on emotion; it would eventually appear as a separate book in 1872 ( Expression of the …
- … Lyell, ‘thank all the powers above & below, I shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding …
- … eighteen years of age. Darwin clearly expected her to make a considerable contribution, instructing …
- … He worried that parts of the book were ‘too like a Sermon: who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn …
- … disagreed: ‘Certainly to have you turned Parson will be a change I expect I shall want it enlarging …
- … looking exclusively into his own mind’, and himself, ‘a degraded wretch looking from the outside …
- … side of human descent. On 7 March 1870, Darwin made a note on the shape of human ears: ‘W. has seen …
- … made drawings of ears of monkeys & shortly afterwards he saw a man with tip & instantly …
- … statue of Puck, the mischievous fairy in Shakespeare’s A midsummer night’s dream. Darwin …
- … sketch in Descent , and discussed the ‘tip’ as a rudimentary organ, describing its frequency and …
- … 1: 22-3). Humans as animals: facial muscles A more troubling anatomical feature for …
- … photographs, later used by Darwin in Expression , showed a man whose platysma was severely …
- … most avid observers of facial expression. Browne sent a lengthy account of the movements of the …
- … research on emotions continued to draw on observations from a variety of domains, from the colonial …
- … screams: ‘does it wrinkle up the skin round the eyes like a Baby always does? . . Could you make it …
- … good. He did consult Henry Bence Jones, his physician since 1865, regarding ‘pins & needles’. …
- … to be thus killed by a man of 86’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). On learning of this, …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … – and, taken together, letters and publications form a series of overlapping conversations with …
- … expect it to be so popular, but because he saw it as a temporary stop-gap. He still intended to …
- … edition, both of which came out just weeks later, solely as a chance to make corrections or …
- … his business elsewhere if they weren’t willing to produce a new edition: ‘I feel sure that the …
- … final one published in Darwin’s lifetime) was prefaced by a long list of alterations. Tracing the …
- … these changes. While some were improvements in style, and a few corrected errors, the bulk …
- … his points, or revised and expanded his thinking. Stung by a reported comment from Richard Owen that …
- … on naval timber, and in later re-writings itself became a place for skirmishes over priority with …
- … no changes in the typeface, size or binding. The fifth had a different cover, and smaller margins to …
- … 2d German translation, 1863 2d French translation 1865 4 th English edition published …
- … wants another instantly… Darwin heard that a new edition was already needed on 24 …
- … he modestly described the second edition as ‘ merely a reprint of the first with a few verbal …
- … from September to November 1859, Lyell buried Darwin under a blizzard of letters (see especially …
- … change that went to Darwin’s heart was the deletion of a reference to supposed fossil evidence …
- … of the views advocated’. This last one was a welcome endorsement from the religious author …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been born at the London …
- … and Huxley, together with the zoo superintendent Abraham Bartlett and Bartlett’s friend and …
- … angry mother hippopotamus and her calf from the safety of a window; her huge bulk is emphasised by …
- … roars at the unwelcome visitors, and the cartoon suggests a degree of scepticism about the …
- … book. Griset worked for Fun magazine over a period of years, greatly admired both by the …
- … editor Tom Hood. George and Edward Dalziel remembered ‘a distinct cleverness’ about Griset’s ‘quaint …
- … - he had done ‘much on “Prehistoric Man”’. This is a reference to Griset’s series of large …
- … to his (Lubbock’s) book Pre-historic Times (1865); they include some scenes depicting the life …
- … Fun magazine (23 November 1872), p. 209. ‘Birth of a hippopotamus’, Times (7 November 1872), p …
- … p. 8. George and Edward Dalziel, The Brothers Dalziel. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (London: …
- … 119-20. Lionel Lambourne, Ernest Griset: Fantasies of a Victorian Illustrator (London: Thames …
