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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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Darwin in London – Great Marlborough Street and Upper Gower Street

Let’s straighten out some confusions about where Charles Darwin and his family lived in London before they moved to Down House in Downe, a village in Kent. Down House (1842 onwards) Charles and Emma Darwin moved into Down […]
Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Penguin Classics), 1890 second edition, edited by Professor Joe Cain and Dr Sharon Messenger ISBN 9780141439440
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Reading Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin’s research interests – a central pillar of his ‘human’ series. This book engaged some […]
Portraits of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. 1840. By George Richmond
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Darwin in London – Commemorative Plaques and Family Baptism Records

During research concerning Charles and Emma Darwin’s life at number 12 Upper Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London, I identified several errors and vagaries in biographical material found in standard reference works. This note communicates corrections and […]
Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Penguin Classics), 1890 second edition, edited by Professor Joe Cain and Dr Sharon Messenger ISBN 9780141439440
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Charles Darwin – Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1890 second edition)

First published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Charles Darwin‘s research interests – a central pillar of his ‘human’ series. This book […]

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Student Protesters - "brown doggers" - around Brown Dog Statue in Latchmere Recreation Ground, Battersea, London Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World Flight of the Langoustine, by Pierre Diamantopoulo MRSS. It is made of four life-size bronze figures flying through a steel grid. It was inspired by a discarded and mangled lobster pot that the artist had found on Brighton beach. In his imagination, the washed-up object that had seemingly helped the lobsters escape, translated itself into a wider story of human exodus and release – a dash for freedom. Diamantopoulo describes the figures as “at once profound, frivolous and boisterous, occupying the air like a flock of birds and inspired by modern dance choreography”. Bronze casting at Milwyn Foundry and fabrication of the steel grid and assembly by Art Fabrications. The sculpture weighs 2.2 tonnes and measures approximately 3.5 metres high and 3 meters wide. Flight of the Langoustine was inaugurated on the Hove Plinth on 17 September 2023. Lock screen gallery darwin-expression-of-emotions-in-man-and-animals-joe-cain-sharon-messenger-03 Case 1-3 The Italian Court in the Crystal Palace Labyrinthodon model after conservation 2026 Crystal Palace Park Crystal Palace Dinosaur statues by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in 1850s located in Crystal Palace, a suburb of London, UK. Case 19 (partial view - left) Archaeopteryx cast Case 44

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