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
Geoffrey West
van Wyhe, John
Van Syoc, Robert
Thomson, Keith Stewart
Stott, Rebecca
Ruse, Michael
Concepts
Biographies
Evolution
Barnacles
Biology
Science and society
Science education and teaching
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Great Britain
England
Galapagos Islands
Institutions
Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge, Eng.)
Cambridge University
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