Darwin, development, Drosophila, and disease
Darwin, development, Drosophila, and disease
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达尔文、发育、果蝇和疾病
DOI:
10.1002/hep.23235
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
J. Iredale
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文献类型:
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作者:
J. Iredale
The year 2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his master work,“The Origin of the Species.” In universities and museums across the United Kingdom, events and exhibitions have been convened to celebrate this anniversary. Indeed, it has been possible to see everything from an academic wearing a false beard and a stovepipe hat doing a passable imitation of Charles Darwin while giving a slide show presentation on his visit to the Galapagos Islands (University Museum Oxford, February 2009) to exhibits that offer an insight into this remarkable man, such as the page of the final draft manuscript of “The Origin” containing some decipherable pencil arithmetic—the homework of his grandchildren undertaken on what was for the family a piece of scrap paper!(Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Fall 2009) Here in Edinburgh, we claim Darwin as one of our own. This is because he spent the first 2 years of his higher education studying medicine in Edinburgh. 1 In common with other students of that age, Darwin did not choose his subject of study himself; the decision was made for him. Medicine ran in Darwin’s family; his father was a successful physician and his grandfather Erasmus Darwin, a notable physician in the cathedral city of Lichfield, 2 had also been a key figure in the English enlightenment that was centered in the Midlands and Potteries in the preceding century. But Charles Darwin was not destined to become a doctor and indeed did not enjoy his medical studies. He was apparently averse to surgery (pre-anesthesia, of course) and found the didactic lectures tedious.(I might add, for any parents of prospective medical students, that our curriculum has changed significantly since 1826, and our reputation for taught components is excellent!). As a result, Darwin filled his time collecting insects and observing natural history and marine life. Ultimately he dropped out of medicine, and, under the guidance of his father, enrolled as an undergraduate in Cambridge University to study to become a clergyman.... and the rest, as they say, is history.
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Yang J
通讯作者:
Yang J