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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the
  • in relation to Sex’. Always precise in his accounting, Darwin reckoned that he had started writing
  • gathered on each of these topics was far more extensive than Darwin had anticipated. As a result,  …
  • and St George Jackson Mivart, and heated debates sparked by Darwins proposed election to the French
  • Finishing Descent; postponing Expression Darwin began receiving proofs of some of the
  • … ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ). Darwin was still working hard on parts of the
  • style, the more grateful I shall be’  ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). She had
  • … , the latter when she was just eighteen years of age. Darwin clearly expected her to make a
  • have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). Henrietta
  • so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February 1870] ). …
  • philanthropist Frances Power Cobbe. At Cobbes suggestion, Darwin read some of Immanuel Kants  …
  • … ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] ). Cobbe accused Darwin of smiling in his beard with
  • as animals: ears Despite Cobbes plea, most of Darwins scientific attention in 1870 was
  • fairy in Shakespeares  A midsummer nights dreamDarwin obtained a sketch of a human ear from
  • Darwin turned to the physician and eye-specialist William Ogle, requesting him to observe the muscle
  • he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
  • expression, including four lengthy letters from the explorer William Winwood Reade, who had led an
  • who sent a sketch of a babys brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). He also wrote to
  • … (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
  • Darwin commented on Mivarts essay in a letter to William Henry Flower: ‘I am glad you noticed the
  • essays (later revised as  Genesis of species (Mivart 1871)), Mivart tried to carve out a position
  • Bruce, about the possibility of inserting a question in the 1871 census about cousin marriage. …
  • of consanguineous marriages. He enlisted the support of William Farr, a specialist in medical
  • receive friends and visit family. He confided to his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘I never pass 6
  • at Ightam Mote, in Kent, and nearly a fortnight with his son William in Southampton, and making a
  • man’. ‘I can most truly say’, he wrote to his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘that I have written