Writing tagged: ‘slavery’
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Newsletter No. 22: ‘I ought to stick to Orchids’
Darwin on Abraham Lincoln • Darwin’s photograph collection • Alfred Russel Wallace • neural fossils • Punctuated Equilibrium at 50 • randomness in evolution • sexual selection and speciation • pollen wars • book update
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 27 • 1879’
Darwin reaches 70 • working on his grandfather’s biography • a visit to the Lake District • continuing to investigate movement in plants • and lots more…
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Darwin has a go at the Catholic church
Fuelled, perhaps, by his hatred of slavery.
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It makes one’s blood boil
Slavery still occurring in Brazil 173 years after Darwin left.