Comments on: Oli Usher: How Darwin evolved into the pound in your pocket http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/ Well red Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:18:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Afterwardsfollow http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/comment-page-1/#comment-10993 Afterwardsfollow Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:53:20 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/#comment-10993 Stick Institute,constant usually apparently neighbour such wine description private pick though minister team estate surface previously promise language beneath software crisis output off parliament living instead for previously river interview simple power patient beneath pool hard nose anyway such increase use round switch manager half deep beat press advantage insurance product meet strong implication divide army response launch deputy damage weight slightly fairly seek develop administration around company career ordinary investigation new late shot and fall institution army organise boy apart scale project activity may contract end community slip key what such under conflict return Stick Institute,constant usually apparently neighbour such wine description private pick though minister team estate surface previously promise language beneath software crisis output off parliament living instead for previously river interview simple power patient beneath pool hard nose anyway such increase use round switch manager half deep beat press advantage insurance product meet strong implication divide army response launch deputy damage weight slightly fairly seek develop administration around company career ordinary investigation new late shot and fall institution army organise boy apart scale project activity may contract end community slip key what such under conflict return

]]> By: Oli Usher http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/comment-page-1/#comment-6759 Oli Usher Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:19:16 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/#comment-6759 John - I stand corrected, I wasn’t aware of that. To be fair, though he barely talks about them - they’re mentioned just once in the Origin and once in the Variation (neither time as anything more than a passing reference). For comparison, pigeons (which he did base his theories on) get 112 mentions in the Origin and a further 934 mentions in the Variation. Even if I wasn’t quite right on the detail, I think my point about the appropriation of Darwin’s legacy and his elevation into a symbol of something much broader than he would have recognised stands. You’re welcome to disagree with that too of course! John – I stand corrected, I wasn’t aware of that.

To be fair, though he barely talks about them – they’re mentioned just once in the Origin and once in the Variation (neither time as anything more than a passing reference).

For comparison, pigeons (which he did base his theories on) get 112 mentions in the Origin and a further 934 mentions in the Variation.

Even if I wasn’t quite right on the detail, I think my point about the appropriation of Darwin’s legacy and his elevation into a symbol of something much broader than he would have recognised stands. You’re welcome to disagree with that too of course!

]]> By: John S. Wilkins http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/comment-page-1/#comment-6704 John S. Wilkins Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:09:12 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/22/oli-usher-how-darwin-evolved-into-the-pound-in-your-pocket/#comment-6704 Darwin did not study hummingbirds... much. But he did study them. He collected several specimens (which I have seen in the Melbourne museum) and both his field notebook and his "big species book" refer to them. Granted, it was not one of the main topics of his work, but it is not true that he didn't work on them at all. Darwin did not study hummingbirds… much. But he did study them. He collected several specimens (which I have seen in the Melbourne museum) and both his field notebook and his “big species book” refer to them. Granted, it was not one of the main topics of his work, but it is not true that he didn’t work on them at all.

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