Article ID: CBB001211669

Darwin and Barnacles (2010)

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Deutsch, Jean (Author)


Comptes Rendus Biologies
Volume: 333, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 99-106


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “A non-Darwinian Darwin”
Language: English

In this essay, I discuss the origin of Charles Darwin's interest in cirripedes (barnacles). Indeed, he worked intensively on cirripedes during the years in which he was developing the theory that eventually led to the publication of The Origin of Species. In the light of our present knowledge, I present Darwin's achievements in the morphology, systematics and biology of these small marine invertebrates, and also his mistakes. I suggest that the word that sheds the most light here is homology, and that his mistakes were due to following Richard Owen's method of determining homologies by reference to an ideal archetype. I discuss the ways in which his studies on cirripedes in uenced the writing of The Origin

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Authors & Contributors
Archibald, J. David
Brigandt, Ingo
Bont, Raf de
Brauckmann, Sabine
Browne, E. Janet
Buchanan, Roderick D.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Archives of Natural History
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of Cambridge Studies
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
Science and Education
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh
History Press
John Wiley & Sons
Princeton University Press
Prometheus Books
Reaktion Books
Concepts
Biographies
Evolution
Homology (biology)
Barnacles
Biology
Developmental biology
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Baer, Karl Ernst von
Darwin, family
Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried
Gegenbaur, Carl
Heidegger, Martin
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
Galapagos Islands
Institutions
Cambridge University
Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge, Eng.)
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