Visuals for Darwin
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Outline

  • Introduction: Natural History through early 1800s
  • The "species problem"
  • Charles Darwin, his voyage and his notebooks
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  • Intro to Discussion
  • Discuss: E notebook/Origin of Species
  • Interlude: From species to natural selection, from non-humans to humans
  • Discuss: M notebook/Descent of Man
  • Epilogue

      Natural History through early 1800s
    1. Linnaeus
    2. Erasmus Darwin
    3. Haywain, by John Constable
    4. The Deluge, by Martin
    5. romanticized nature and "savagery"
    6. Alexander von Humboldt
    7. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
    8. WIlliam Paley

      The "species problem"

    9. 6 dogs
    10. 2 wolves: Mexican & grey
    11. Hutton's vireo and ruby crowned kinglet
    12. Grand Canyon squirrels: Kaibab and Aberts
    13. S. American rheas
    14. Galapagos tortoises
    15. 2 fish
    16. ammonites
    17. Papilio butterflies
    18. Blumenbach's races of humans

      Charles Darwin, His Voyage & Notebooks

    19. Charles Darwin
    20. Darwin and Abraham Lincoln
    21. collecting beetles
    22. hunting
    23. Univ. of Edinburgh
    24. Cambridge
    25. Adam Sedgwick and John Henslow
    26. Robert Fitzroy
    27. HMS Beagle
    28. cramped quarters
    29. Charles Lyell
    30. Megatherium and William Buckland
    31. sloth
    32. fossil glyptodon
    33. armadillo
    34. rhea on the [Argentine] pampas
    35. ...2 types
    36. gauchos at campfire
    37. Tierra del Fuego
    38. Jeremy Button & other Fuegians
    39. collapsed cathedral at Concepcion [Chile]
    40. Galapagos tortoises
    41. finches
    42. orangutan (Malay archipelago)
    43. coral atoll (Keeling Island, Indian Ocean)
    44. London, c 1936
    45. Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and teh Atheneaum Club
    46. Dicken's London
    47. . . . again
    48. . . . again
    49. . . . again
    50. comfortable Victorian society
    51. Herbert Spencer
    52. Darwin's first London residence: Marlborough St.
    53. rhea [John Gould]
    54. coral reefs
    55. finch specimens
    56. Lyell
    57. Darwin's notebooks
    58. barnacles
    59. seeds & sea water
    60. Alfred Wallace
    61. . . . Malay archipelago
    62. . . . collecting
    63. Origin of Species
    64. Descent of Man

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