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wwww GUEST COMMENTARY James Morris Topping My List: A Visit to Down House Recently, I was fortunate to visit Down House—Charles Darwin’s pros and cons of getting married. Between the two headers, at the home outside of London. As a biologist who teaches classes on evo- top of the page, he writes and circles, “This is the Question.” lution and the Origin of Species, this was a long-awaited pilgrimage In the Marry column is “Children” and “Constant companion,” for me as it is for so many other biology teachers. and in the Not Marry column is “Freedom to go where one liked” Being there, I could relate to his routine of taking daily strolls and “Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.” along his thinking path, or Sandwalk, at the back of his rural prop- He ends with “Marry—Marry—Marry Q.E.D.” as though he erty. I enjoyed seeing how he involved his children in his numerous just completed a mathematical proof. If only our own decisions and sometimes whimsical experiments. In one such experiment, he could be resolved so convincingly. He married a few months later placed seeds in a bathtub, measuring how long they float
The American Biology Teacher – University of California Press
Published: May 1, 2023
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