The Origin of Species · Character
Dr. Hooker
A botanist and trusted ally who sends Darwin Himalayan pines, reads his manuscripts, and lends the theory the credibility of a working field scientist.
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Also known as Dr. Hooker, subsequently Dr. Hooker, Hooker
First appearance: i variation under domestication
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Published Introduction to the Australian Flora in 1859, supporting descent and modification of species.
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Hooker is Darwin's closest botanical correspondent, the friend whose Himalayan seed collections show that plants from different altitudes carry different constitutional powers of resisting cold. He is also the reader…
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- An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, Previously to the Publication of the First Edition of This Work
- Unconscious Selection
- II: Variation Under Nature
- Wide-Ranging, Much Diffused, and Common Species Vary Most
- Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest
- Illustrations of the Action of Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest
- Convergence of Character
- Acclimatisation
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