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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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  • … from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 , and letter from Robert MacLachlan, 21 February 1868 ). …
  • … from the entomologist and librarian at Cambridge, George Robert Crotch, writing to his mother Emma …
  • … very evidently indicated’. The British envoy in China, Robert Swinhoe, remarked on 4 August that …
  • … accomodated it with some form of theology. The entomologist Robert McLachlan, who supplied Darwin …