Tag: Darwin Correspondence Project

  • Nation & World

    Darwin takes flight

    Arnold Arboretum Director William “Ned” Friedman and freshmen from his “Getting to Know Darwin” seminar went to the home of a pigeon fancier. “Darwin not only wrote about pigeons, he bred them himself,” Friedman said.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    On Darwin and gender

    New website opens a window onto naturalist Charles Darwin’s struggle with the complexities of gender, and illustrates how culture affects science’s vaunted neutrality.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Across 160 years, Darwin speaks

    The discovery of an unknown 1848 letter by the great naturalist sheds light on a murky part of his life, and on a friendship that eventually went awry.

    3 minutes