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Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 15 hits
- … "A child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Allen, Grant (13) Allen, J. A. (b) (1) …
- … Lionel (1) Asher, G. M. (7) Ashley, …
- … Athenæum (11) Atkin, J. R. (1) …
- … Aylmer, I. E. (2) Ayres, W. P. (1) B …
- … Baranoff, W. (2) Barber, M. E. (1) …
- … Bates, H. W. (91) Bathoe, M. B. (1) …
- … Baxter, E. B. (1) Baxter, M. L. (1) …
- … William (7) Baynes, H. M. (1) Baynes …
- … C. F. (1) Berkeley, M. J. (12) …
- … Institut (1) Biddulph, F. M. (1) …
- … Thomas (1) Bishop, I. P. (1) Bishop, …
- … W. W. (1) Chesney, J. P. (1) Chester …
- … J. C. (1) Cooke, J. P. (1) Cooke, R. …
- … Wealden Exploration Fund (1) Weale, J. P. M. (13) …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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…
Matches: 3 hits
- … a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). …
- … a ‘deep-seated enmity to Revealed Religion’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868], n. 11 ). …
- … of the whole neighbourhood’, Darwin warned ( letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). Innes tried …
