More sickness, more botany.
Writing tagged: ‘joseph dalton hooker’
Charles Darwin’s book-writing process
Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
Newsletter No. 7: ‘Stirring up the mud’
160 years after Darwin ‘stirred up the mud’, the ‘controversy’ over evolution by means of natural selection was settled long ago, as far as the scientific community is concerned.
Newsletter No. 3: ‘Knee-deep in barnacles’
Our third newsletter marks Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
14-May-1856: Darwin starts writing his ‘big species book’
On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that, on the advice of his friend Charles Lyell, after almost 20 years exploring the subject, he had finally begun writing a ‘sketch’ of his ideas on species.
11-Jan-1844: Darwin confesses murder!
Darwin comes clean about his heretical views to Joseph Dalton Hooker, humorously likening admitting believing in evolution to ‘confessing a murder’.
How do we know it was Owen?
…who wrote the anonymous, scathing review of ‘On the Origin of Species’?
01-Jul-1858: Darwin goes public
Charles Darwin finally went public with his theory of evolution by means of Natural Selection on 1st July 1858.
What I would tell Darwin
...were he miraculously to return to the Land of the Living.
Lumpers v Splitters
When is a giraffe not a giraffe?
18-Jun-1858: Wallace’s bombshell
On 18th June 1858, Charles Darwin received the biggest bombshell of his scientific career: it looked as if he was about to be scooped!