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Thank you very much

I'm going to talk about something that's near and dear to almost all of us and that's really how many friends you've got as the vice chancellor eluded to next door

Darwin of course is an incredibly prolific these are probably his three best known books but he wrote a number of other books during the course of his life which in sort of intellectual terms uh equally good reads

I recommend them to you book on barnacles

Might remind you that even if none of these books had ever been written ah indeed he'd never done anything on evolution at all he'd still be regarded as one of the founding fathers of geology something that very often sort of people aren't aware of

He was one of the sort of great geologists of the period as well

Anyway clearly Darwin had a go at almost everything quite a remarkable career but two things really he didn't say a great deal about in the course of this life's work really of brains and sort of the emergent properties of social behavior you heard from Tristin at the beginning that he was very interested in sort of as it if were the signaling components of behavior

He wrote this extraordinary book on the evolution of emotions which was really one of the foundational books of psychology it can be regarded as

But he in terms of the sort of societal aspects of behavior and the emergent properties of our interactions with each other as it were, ah he had very little to say

Simply because they didn't know very much about these kind of things they couldn't do much a great deal with brains in those days