The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals usually been viewed in its relationship to Darwin's conception of "natural selection" as the central mechanism of evolutionary development, which he probably grasped some time around September 1838. These notes have a tentative and fragmented quality, especially in Darwin's descriptions of conversation with his father (a successful doctor with a special interest in psychiatric problems) about recurring patterns of behaviour in successive generations of his patients' families. Darwin was anxious about the materialistic drift in his thinking – and of the disrepute which this could attract in early Victorian England – at the time, he was mentally preparing for marriage
The Man Who Lost the Sea head ...", "If you were the kid ..."). Shortly after its original appearance in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in issue 74 (January 1960) of the French-language magazine "Fiction" (under the title "L'homme qui a perdu la mer"). Its first appearance in Britain was in the October 1963 issue of "Venture Science Fiction". "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in two best-of-the-year anthologies—"The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction" (Ninth Series, 1960) and "The Best American Short Stories, 1960", as well as being reprinted in "The Fifth Annual of the