• Pyrenaemata by T. Ryan Gregory

    A blog dealing with genomics, evolution, and biodiversity.

    • Darwin's note about higher and lower.

      Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 - 16:35 UTC

      Here is a page from Darwin’s 1837 notebook. (Click for larger image)

      In case you can’t read his handwriting (few can), it says

      It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure / intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
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      Get your Darwin Year gear here.

      Last updated: Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 - 16:35 UTC

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