Dr. Jim Reads Darwin's Origin of Species, Chapter 13: "Geographic Dispersion (Continued)"
At page 196 Darwin did a little experiment where he took just under 7 ounces of mud from a pond and and watch it for 6 months. He was able to grow "537" plants. "I do not believe botanists are aware how charged the mud of ponds are with seeds" he wrote.
Darwin Chapter 14, "Rudimentary Organs", Part 1 and Part 2
"[A]ll true
classification [is] genealogical; and that community of descent is the hidden
bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking." ((Darwin,
Illustrated Origin of Species, p. 206)
The power of
repetition:
"If we hear
something false presented often enough, are we more likely to believe it? There
is good evidence that we are (Begg, Anas, & Farinacci, 1992; Hasher,
Goldstein, & Toppino, 1977), whether these things are presented as facts or
opinions (Arkes, Hackett, & Boehm, 1989) or are presented in a visual or an
auditory mode (Bacon, 1979), even when we are told that some items are repeated
(Bacon, 1979). This frequency-validity effect can persist
for weeks (Bacon, 1979; Hasher et al., 1977). Similarly, making the same decision repeatedly increases confidence in that decision (Einhorn & Hogarth, 1978). Expressing the same attitude repeatedly increases its accessibility—one of the components of attitude strength—and hence increases our confidence in it and the likelihood that we will act on it (Fazio, 1995)." (Uleman, J., Blader, S. L., & Todorov, A. (2005). Implicit Impressions. In R. R. Hassin, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The new unconscious. New York: Oxford University Press at p. 383)
Darwin wrote in his last edition of his great Origin of Species regarding an ingoing misrepresentation of his views on natural selection and its relationship to the theory of evolution: "Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure." (p. 216)
Darwin's Glossary
G through L
M through R
S through Z
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