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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, aged 45, circa 1854


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 Dinesh
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. . . . FitzRoy agreed to take Darwin on, (the Beagle) despite apparently distrusting the shape of his nosw. He was an ardent disciple of Lavater, wrote Darwin, ‘and was convinced that he could judge a man’s character by the outline of his features; and he doubted whether anyone with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage.’ With a characteristic combination of confidence and modesty, Darwin concludes, ‘But I think he was afterwards well-satisfied that my nose had spoken falsely!’ ~ Page 11

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 Dinesh
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. . . Darwin a country boy living close to animals all his life, very erly learnt to understand their forms of communication., he viewed them as intelligible fellow creatures, beings akin to him whose attitudes he could often grasp. He was very interested in the diferent behavioural language that different species use for this communication, and in his excellent book ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’ (1872) darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1897_Expression_F1152.pdf he traced out how various positions, various movements and muscles, were suitably adapted to express their owner’s’ different moods

In all the recent Darwinolatry, this important book too has been strangely neglected. The response for its neglect is that Darwin’s relatively sympathetic, realistic attitude to other species went right out of fashion when the behavioruists insisted that their mechanaistic, depersonalized approach was the only scientific way to study mental life. Eventually ethologist such as Konard Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen resisted this by suggesting that we can actually learn more by using the power of social perception that evolution has given us -- as Darwin used them -- then by switching those powers off and pretending that the creatures around us are made of clockwork. Since their time, a flood of careful acounts by people, such as Jane Goodall, who have taken the trouble to observe the natural life of animals systematically, has shown how far the facts here diverge from the fantasies of the earlier tradition. . . . . Page 42/43

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