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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Study Abroad: Darwin's England

My attempts to muster a Study Abroad course visiting Darwin's Down House and environs have so far come up just a bit short. But there are others...

Jerry Coyne:

Every year my friend Andrew Berry, a lecturer and student advisor at Harvard, teaches a summer course at Oxford for Harvard undergrads. Its theme is Darwin and evolution, and the best part is that since the course takes place in DarwinLand, he can take the students to various historical sites and show them the science and history behind the Great Idea. I went to Down House, Darwin’s adult home, with Andrew’s course one year, and we were given a tour by none other than Janet Browne, historian of science and author of the wonderful two-volume biography of Darwin (see here and here) that I consider the best account of his life and work. Janet still takes the students to Darwin’s home, and you can see her in the penultimate photo...



Darwin’s “thinking path”, the Sand Walk, where he would stroll and ponder.  I live in hope that my students will have correspondingly significant insights as they walk along the path, but it’s yet to happen. Here they are accompanied by Janet Browne, Darwin scholar and biographer.

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  2. Anonymous10:28 PM CDT

    Kys yourself my man

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