Whitwell Elwin's recommendation that Darwin's "Origin of Species" be revamped to focus on pigeons: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2457A.xml … … "Every body is interested in pigeons." Easy to laugh, but the letter has some sensible observations, though misses the big picture. Taste is tough.
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Given the mention of Lyell, I assume Elwin is reviewing a copy of _Origin_ in more or less its first edition form. Most readers think it has an incredible amount of material on pigeons already, did Darwin have even more material he could've added?!
It's the pre-publication manuscript. The suggestion is to remove most of the theory, and to leave (or expand on) the pigeon bits.
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We don't have the counter-factual. Maybe with more pigeons it would have been more impactful
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Sounds like a
@timhwang project
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