Writing tagged: ‘joseph dalton hooker’
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 2 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions, and revising ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 1 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 15 • 1867’
Correcting proofs and researching human evolution, sexual selection, and expressions.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 14 • 1866’
Getting back to work after prolonged illness.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 12 • 1864’
More sickness, more botany.
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Charles Darwin’s book-writing process
Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
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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.
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Newsletter No. 3: ‘Knee-deep in barnacles’
Marking Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
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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.
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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’.
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How do we know it was Owen?
…who wrote the anonymous, scathing review of ‘On the Origin of Species’?