Darwin's Origin of Species Read online

  Young, Robert M., Darwin’s Metaphor, Nature’s Place in Victorian

  Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985

  INDEX

  Note: The abbreviation CD refers to

  Charles Darwin.

  adaptation:

  and CD Ref1, Ref2

  and environment Ref1

  and Hyatt Ref1

  and Lamarck Ref1

  modern studies Ref1

  and Paley Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  Agassiz, Louis Ref1, Ref2

  agnosticism:

  of CD Ref1

  of Huxley Ref1

  Allingham, William Ref1

  altruism, and competition Ref1

  American Civil Liberties Union Ref1, Ref2

  anatomy, comparative Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Anglican church see Church of England

  animals:

  and language Ref1, Ref2

  and origin of human beings Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  and sexual selection Ref1

  anthropology:

  evolutionary Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  palaeo-anthropology Ref1, Ref2

  anti-slavery movement Ref1, Ref2apes:

  behaviour studies Ref1

  and degeneration theories Ref1

  and evolution of human beings Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  and fossil finds Ref1

  Appleton (NY publisher) Ref1

  archaeology, pre-history Ref1

  Ardrey, Robert Ref1

  Arnold, Matthew Ref1, Ref2

  atavism Ref1

  atheism:

  and CD Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and impact of Origin of Species Ref1

  Athenaeum Club, CD’s membership Ref1

  Aveling, Edward Ref1

  barnacles, CD’s study Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Bates, Henry Walter Ref1

  Bateson, William Ref1, Ref2

  behaviour:

  animal Ref1

  and genetics Ref1, Ref2

  Behe, Michael J. Ref1

  Bertillon, Alphonse Ref1

  Bible:

  and critical scholarship Ref1

  and CD Ref1, Ref2

  and evolutionary theory Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and FitzRoy Ref1

  and fundamentalism Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and geology Ref1

  biology:

  and environment Ref1

  evolutionary Ref1, Ref2

  and geology Ref1

  and gradualism Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and inheritance Ref1

  molecular Ref1

  and politics Ref1

  population Ref1, Ref2

  and social science Ref1

  and society Ref1

  biometrics Ref1, Ref2

  birds, Galápagos Islands Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  Biston betularia Ref1

  Boas, Franz Ref1

  botany, and evolution Ref1

  brain:

  human and primate Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  male and female Ref1

  Brazil, and slavery Ref1

  British Association for the Advancement of Science Ref1

  Brown, Robert Ref1

  Browning, Robert Ref1

  Bryan, William Jennings Ref1, Ref2

  Buckle, Henry Ref1

  Butler, Samuel Ref1

  Erewhon Ref1

  Cambridge University:

  biologists Ref1, Ref2

  CD’s studies Ref1, Ref2

  and natural theology Ref1, Ref2capitalism:

  and competition Ref1, Ref2, Ref3and industrialization Ref4, Ref5

  Carnegie, Andrew Ref1

  Carpenter, William Benjamin Ref1

  Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the

  Natural History of Creation Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7

  copies sold Ref1

  Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Ref1

  chance, and evolution Ref2, Ref3change:

  biological Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  geological Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  social Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Chapman, John Ref1

  characteristics, acquired Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4,

  Ref1, Ref2

  Chartism Ref1

  Chetverikof, Sergei Ref1

  Christianity, liberal Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Christ’s College, Cambridge Ref1

  chromosomes Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Church of England:

  authority Ref1, Ref2

  and CD’s studies Ref1

  and education Ref1

  and reception of Origin of Species

  Ref1, Ref2

  role in national life Ref1

  civilization:

  and human mind 111

  and progress Ref1, Ref2

  and survival of the fittest Ref1, Ref2

  and humankind Ref1

  Combe, George, Constitution of Man,

  copies sold Ref1

  competition:

  and altruism Ref1

  and evolutionary theory Ref1, Ref2,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  in society Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, 120

  Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, The Lost

  World Ref1

  cooperation, and evolution Ref1

  Cope, Edward Drinker Ref1

  Correns, Carl Ref1

  creation:

  evolutionary Ref1

  divine Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and Lyell Ref1, Ref2

  creationism, modern Ref1, Ref2

  creativity, and ill-health Ref1

  creator, in Origin of Species Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  criminology Ref1, Ref2

  cyberspace Ref1

  Darrow, Clarence Ref1, Ref2

  Dart, Raymond Ref1

  Darwin, Anne (daughter of CD) Ref1

  Darwin, Charles:

  character Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  ill-health Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  sea-sickness Ref1

  water-cures Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4and writing Ref5, Ref6

  private life:

  family background Ref1

  education Ref1

  friendships Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4,

  Ref1, Ref2; see also Gray,

  Asa; Henslow, John

  Stevens; Hooker,

  Joseph; Huxley, Thomas

  Henry; Lyell, Charles;

  Sedgwick, Adam

  religious beliefs Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  wife and family Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  deaths of children Ref1, Ref2

  death and funeral Ref1, Ref2

  professional life:

  Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2

  celebrity status Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  correspondence Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  as devil’s chaplain Ref1, Ref2

  legacy Ref1

  writings:

  Autobiography Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5,

  Ref1, Ref2

  barnacle monographs Ref1

  The Descent of Man Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  essay of 1844 Ref1

  The Expression of the Emotions

  in Man and Animals Ref1, Ref2

  health diary Ref1

  Journal of Researches Ref1, Ref2,

  Ref1, Ref2

  On the Variation of Animals

  and Plants Ref1

  Transmutation Notebooks

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  The Zoology of the Voyage of

  H.M.S. Beagle Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  see also On the Origin of

  Species

  Darwin, Charles (son of CD) Ref1, Ref2

  Darwin, Elizabeth (daughter of CD)

  Ref1

  Darwin, Emma (wife of CD) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  children Ref1

  religious beliefs Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Darwin, Erasmus (brother of CD) Ref1

  Darwin, Erasmus (grandfather of CD) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  an
d transformism Ref1, Ref2

  Zoonomia Ref1

  Darwin, Francis (son of CD) Ref1, Ref2

  Darwin, George (son of CD) Ref1

  Darwin, Henrietta (daughter of CD)

  Ref1, Ref2

  Darwin, Horace (son of CD) Ref1

  Darwin, Leonard (son of CD) Ref1, Ref2

  Darwin, Robert Waring (father of CD) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  Darwin, Susannah (née Wedgwood;

  mother of CD) Ref1

  Darwin, William (son of CD) Ref1

  Darwinian revolution Ref1, Ref2

  Darwinism, modern synthesis Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Davenport, Charles Ref1

  Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene

  147

  Dawson, Charles 131

  De Vries, Hugh Ref1

  degeneration, hereditary Ref1

  design, and existence of God Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  determinism, genetic Ref1

  Disraeli, Benjamin Ref1, Ref2

  distribution, and variation (graphical) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  divergence, principle Ref1, Ref2

  diversification of species Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7

  Dobzhansky, Theodore Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Down House, Kent (home of CD) Ref1,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Draper, John William Ref1

  drift, genetic Ref1

  Drosophila melanogaster Ref1, Ref2

  Du Chaillu, Paul Ref1

  Dubois, Eugene Ref1

  earth, age Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  earthworms, CD’s studies Ref1

  economics, and survival of the fittest

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  economy, and botany Ref1

  Edinburgh Review Ref1, Ref2

  Edinburgh University Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Edmonston, John Ref1

  education:

  and the Church Ref1

  and creationism Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Eimer, Theodore Ref1

  Eliot, George Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Emancipation Act 1832 Ref1

  embryology Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Engels, Friedrich Ref1

  entomology Ref1

  environment, and evolution Ref1, Ref2,

  Ref1, Ref2

  Essays and Reviews Ref1, Ref2

  ethics see morality

  ethology Ref1

  eugenics Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  Eugenics Society Ref1

  Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George Evans, Sir John Ref1evolution:

  and age of the earth Ref1

  alternative theories x, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  and environment Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  genesis of CD’s theory Ref1

  and geographical isolation Ref1

  and gradual change Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7

  and Lamarck Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7

  and morality Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  multiple line theories Ref1opposition to Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  and political radicalism Ref1

  and politics and economics Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  and principle of divergence Ref1

  and purpose Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  reactions to Darwin’s theory

  Ref1

  scientific objections Ref1

  and Spencer Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  straight-line theories Ref1

  by sudden variation Ref1

  support for CD Ref1, Ref2

  and Wallace Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  and writing of Origin of Species

  Ref1, Ref2

  Fawcett, Henry Ref1

  finches, Galápagos Islands Ref1, Ref2,

  Ref1

  Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Ref1

  FitzRoy, Captain Robert Ref1, Ref2

  and CD Ref1, Ref2

  Flustra, studies on Ref1

  Ford, Henry Ref1

  Fossey, Dian Ref1

  fossils Ref1

  and Beagle voyage Ref1

  and continuous variation Ref1, Ref2

  and creationism Ref1

  and intermediate forms Ref1,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Fox, William Darwin Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  fruit fly, and genetic studies Ref1, Ref2

  fundamentalism, biblical Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,

  Ref1

  Galápagos Islands:

  and Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2

  finches Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  tortoises 26,Ref1

  Galdikas, Biruté Ref1

  Galton, Francis Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Gärtner, Karl Friedrich Ref1

  gemmules, and pangenesis Ref1

  generation:

  CD’s interest in Ref1, Ref2

  spontaneous Ref1, Ref2

  genes:

  discovery Ref1

  population frequency Ref1, Ref2selfish Ref3, Ref4

  Genesis, and creation account Ref1

  genetics:

  and behaviour Ref1, Ref2

  and evolutionary theory Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  genetic drift Ref1

  and isolation of species Ref1

  and modern Darwinism Ref1

  population Ref1

  in Soviet Union Ref1

  Geological Society of London, CD’s

  membership Ref1

  geology:

  and age of the earth Ref1, Ref2

  and Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and biology Ref1

  early studies Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and Lyell Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  germ plasm Ref1

  Germany:

  and eugenics Ref1

  and Nazism Ref1

  God:

  as creator Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10

  and design Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  and evolution as purposeful Ref1

  Goddard, Henry H. Ref1

  Goodall, Jane Ref1

  gorillas:

  behaviour studies Ref1

  and human ancestry Ref1, Ref2

  Gould, John Ref1

  Gould, Steven Jay Ref1

  gradualism:

  biological Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  geological Ref4, Ref5

  Grant, Peter and Rosemary Ref1

  Grant, Robert Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  Gray, Asa Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  Great Exhibition Ref1, Ref2

  Gully, James Ref1

  Haeckel, Ernst Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Haldane, J. B. S. Ref1, Ref2

  Hardie, J. Keir Ref1

  Hardy, Thomas Ref1

  Henslow, John Stevens Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  and Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  and Lyell Ref1

  heredity:

  and degeneration Ref1

  and environment Ref1, Ref2

  and evolution Ref1, Ref2

  and mental illness Ref1, Ref2

  see also inheritance

  Herschel, John Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  Preliminary Discourse Ref1

  Hill, James J. Ref1

  Hill, Rowland Ref1

  HMS Beagle:

  CD’s publications Ref1–9

  CD’s voyage Ref1, Ref2

  and Galápagos Islands Ref1, Ref2

  geological studies Ref1

  hydrographical survey Ref1

  natural history studies Ref1

  and FitzRoy Ref1, Ref2

  and South America Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  homosexuality Ref1, Ref2

  Hooker, Joseph Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  and botany Ref1

  Hope, Thomas Ref1

  human beings:

  and aggression 145

  and diversity Ref1

  divine creation Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8

  early Ref1, Ref2

  and eugenics Ref1,
Ref2, Ref3

  evolution Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7

  and fossil finds Ref1

  and great apes Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8

  and hereditary degeneration

  Ref1

  heredity and environment Ref1, Ref2

  and language Ref1, Ref2

  and Lyell Ref1

  and mind Ref1

  population and food supply

  Ref1, 64

  unity Ref1

  and Wallace Ref1

  humanism Ref1

  Humboldt, Alexander von Ref1, Ref2

  Personal Narrative 16

  Huxley, Julian Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  Huxley, Thomas Henry Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  Evidence as to Man’s Place in

  Nature Ref1

  Hyatt, Alpheus Ref1

  hydropathy Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  imperialism, and Darwinism Ref1, Ref2,

  Ref1

  industrialization:

  and social change Ref1

  and social Darwinism Ref1

  inheritance:

  of acquired characteristics Ref1, Ref2,

  Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  blending Ref1

  and environment Ref1, Ref2

  and genetics Ref1, 137

  and pangenesis Ref1

  Institute for Creation Research, San

  Diego 150

  intelligence testing Ref1

  Intelligent Design Ref1

  invertebrates, early studies Ref1

  isolation, and genetics Ref1

  James, William Ref1

  Jameson, Robert Ref1, Ref2

  ‘Java Man’ Ref1

  Jenkin, Fleeming Ref1–2

  Jenyns, Leonard Ref1, 19

  Johannsen, Wilhelm 135

  John Paul II, Pope Ref1

  Keith, Sir Arthur Ref1

  Kettlewell, Bernard 142

  King, Philip Gidley Ref1

  Kingsley, Charles Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  Kropotkin, Peter, Mutual Aid Ref1

  Lack, David, Darwin’s Finches Ref1

  Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  System of Invertebrate Animals Ref1

  language, origins Ref1, Ref2

  law, natural Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5

  Le Conte, Joseph Ref1Leakey, Louis Ref2

  Lewes, George Henry Ref1, Ref2

  liberalism, Christian Ref1, Ref2, Ref3life, origins Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  Linnean Society of London Ref1, Ref2

  Lombroso, Cesare Ref1

  Lorenz, Konrad Ref1

  Lubbock, John Ref1

  Lyell, Charles Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4

  The Antiquity of Man Ref1

  and early man Ref1

  and gradualism Ref1, Ref2

  and Origin of Species Ref1, Ref2, Ref3

  The Principles of Geology Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6

  and uniformitarianism Ref1, Ref2

  and Wallace Ref1, Ref2

  Lysenko, Trofim Ref1

  Lytton, Edward Bulwer Ref1

  The Coming Race Ref1