Topping My List

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Editorial| May 01 2023 Topping My List: A Visit to Down House James Morris James Morris JAMES MORRIS is Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. He is also an author of Biology: How Life Works and Biology for the AP Course. He is pictured along the Sandwalk, where he walked in Darwin’s footsteps at Down House. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2023) 85 (5): 243. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2023.85.5.243 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Morris; Topping My List: A Visit to Down House. The American Biology Teacher 1 May 2023; 85 (5): 243. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2023.85.5.243 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search Recently, I was fortunate to visit Down House—Charles Darwin’s home outside of London. As a biologist who teaches classes on evolution and the Origin of Species, this was a long-awaited pilgrimage for me as it is for so many other biology teachers. Being there, I could relate to his routine of taking daily strolls along his thinking path, or Sandwalk, at the back of his rural property. I enjoyed seeing how he involved his children in his numerous and sometimes whimsical experiments. In one such experiment, he placed seeds in a bathtub, measuring how long they float and “resist the injurious actions of water” to better understand how far they migrate. And I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Darwin, like me, is a list maker. I have lists of books I want to read, things I need to do, projects that are unfinished, things I don’t want to... You do not currently have access to this content.