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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…
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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 …
- … been advertised by the publisher John Murray as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in …
- … 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 …
- … your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles …
- … I find rather dull. GRAY: 170 1 May 1865… Well, ‘treason has done its worst’ and …
- … were laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, near to those of Newton. [A setting of Proverbs, Chapter 13, …
- … 5 DECEMBER 1864 170 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH, 1 MAY 1865 171 C DARWIN TO A GRAY …
- … 174 FROM A GRAY TO CHARLES DARWIN, 24 JULY 1865 175 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH, 22 JUNE 1868 …
- … 25 MAY 1868 195 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 21 NOV 1865 196 FROM A GRAY 27 …
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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- … Wollaston Coleoptera Atlantidum 1. 1. 0 [Wollaston 1865] Books Read, 1852–60 [DAR …
- … 180; 128: 5, 9 Moquin-Tandon, Horace Bénédict Alfred. 1841. Éléments de tératologie …
- … Library.] *119: 5v., 7v.; 119: 5a Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1853. A narrative of travels …
- … London. [Darwin Library.] 128: 18 ——. 1865. Coleoptera Atlantidum; being an …
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 …
- … good. He did consult Henry Bence Jones, his physician since 1865, regarding ‘pins & needles’. …
- … Albert Günther, Joseph Hooker, Rudolf Albert von Kölliker, Alfred Newton, Robert Swinhoe, and …
