Visuals for Darwin (2)
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Outline

  • Part I 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

    1. Darwin's notebooks
    2. adaptation: camouflage
    3. Malthus
    4. Darwin, 1842, with son William
    5. barnacles
    6. seeds & sea water
    7. Alfred Wallace
    8. ... as a collector
    9. ... his collections
    10. ... in the Malay archipelago
    11. Darwin, 1857
      diagram from Origin of Species

    12. the problem of the rheas, again
    13. divergence
    14. adaptation
    15. variation
    16. "struggle for existence" -- in society, in nature
      adaptation concepts
    17. species problem: solved
    18. Linnaean classification
    19. homologies
    20. blending inheritance
    21. Mendel
    22. Kelvin

    23. monkey cartoon

    24. cartoon: humans as primates
    26. Icons of Evolution, creationist criticism of evolution
    27. recent books on evolution and ethics

    28. Darwin and Wallace
    29. the Wallace line
    30. variation
    31. Ali, Wallace's assistant & Darwin's Fuegians
    32. Wallace as spitirualist
    33. Darwin, the romantic?
    34. "an entangled bank"
       
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