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@RichardJMurphy Great conversation about the #semantics of all this last weekend, with nephew's Italian wife (at #DownHouse!). She'd been taught about 'survival of the strongest' and we talked about translations and meaning, a well-fitting shoe rather than the biggest or strongest shoe, and then the origins of the chloroplast... #Margulis and #Ostrom trump #Dawkins and #Hardin, if it's a competition between theories (Ikr)
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@RichardJMurphy Great conversation about the #semantics of all this last weekend, with nephew's Italian wife (at #DownHouse!). She'd been taught about 'survival of the strongest' and we talked about translations and meaning, a well-fitting shoe rather than the biggest or strongest shoe, and then the origins of the chloroplast... #Margulis and #Ostrom trump #Dawkins and #Hardin, if it's a competition between theories (Ikr)
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@RichardJMurphy Great conversation about the #semantics of all this last weekend, with nephew's Italian wife (at #DownHouse!). She'd been taught about 'survival of the strongest' and we talked about translations and meaning, a well-fitting shoe rather than the biggest or strongest shoe, and then the origins of the chloroplast... #Margulis and #Ostrom trump #Dawkins and #Hardin, if it's a competition between theories (Ikr)
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@RichardJMurphy Great conversation about the #semantics of all this last weekend, with nephew's Italian wife (at #DownHouse!). She'd been taught about 'survival of the strongest' and we talked about translations and meaning, a well-fitting shoe rather than the biggest or strongest shoe, and then the origins of the chloroplast... #Margulis and #Ostrom trump #Dawkins and #Hardin, if it's a competition between theories (Ikr)
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@RichardJMurphy Great conversation about the #semantics of all this last weekend, with nephew's Italian wife (at #DownHouse!). She'd been taught about 'survival of the strongest' and we talked about translations and meaning, a well-fitting shoe rather than the biggest or strongest shoe, and then the origins of the chloroplast... #Margulis and #Ostrom trump #Dawkins and #Hardin, if it's a competition between theories (Ikr)
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The House Where Darwin Lived
From the late 1920s various attempts were made to preserve Down House as a monument to #Darwin. An institution called #English #Heritage acquired #DownHouse in 1996 and restored it; it is open to visitors year-round and now has a small museum, a shop and a parking lot.
Though it was the home of a wealthy country squire, it was always a family house, not at all showy, and its curators have kept it that way.
There’s a large hallway with cupboards built to store tennis rackets and boots and old manuscripts. Off it branch high-ceilinged family rooms: a billiards room, Darwin’s study, a drawing room, a dining room.
Upstairs is a school room and bedrooms and, on the third floor, servants’ quarters. The high windows have solid-panel shutters that fold back into their frames, so the boundary between inside and outside seems permeable; trees and green are visible everywhere through glass; light pours in.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-house-where-darwin-lived-4277158/
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This afternoon we went to #DownHouse which was the residence of #CharlesDarwin. #EnglishHeritage have done a good job of restoring the house and opening it up to the public. You can see furnished parts of the house such as the study, bedrooms, drawing rooms and childrens’ and billiard rooms and so on.
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Happy #Thanksgiving! I'm #thankful for many things, including #biology's grand unifying #theory, which made its debut in printed form this date in 1859 when Charles #Darwin published #OnTheOriginOfSpecies. Pictured are some of the lines of evidence that made his work possible: #pigeons that Darwin kept and raised, #mammal #fossil he collected in #Uruguay (both from #London's #NaturalHistoryMuseum), and carnivorous #plants from his #greenhouse at his home, #DownHouse, in #Kent.