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Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … of mind in nature and intuition in man’ (J. Martineau 1871), became one of the first of many to …
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and …
- … the two men lived as close neighbours for most of their lives. Lubbock's father, John William …
- … parliament to include a question on cousin-marriage in the 1871 census. This was unsuccessful, but …
- … to carry off anothers wife? ( from John Lubbock, 18 March [1871] ). It was Lubbock who drew …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
- … of man , and selection in relation to sex ( Descent ) in 1871. Along with other publications in …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … written around the time of the publication of Descent in 1871 and appear in a clipping from an …
- … ’ Descent was published in two volumes in 1871, yet as late as the summer of 1868 …
- … ’ Descent was published on 24 February 1871, sold out, and was rushed into a second …
- … to, Descent , see Darwin’s Life in Letters: 1871 . …
