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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … of correcting’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868] ). He may …
- … many years to come. Revising Origin Carl von Nägeli and perfectibility …
- … response to a critique of natural selection by Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, a Swiss botanist and …
- … in the development of species. Darwin correctly assessed Nägeli’s theory as a major challenge …
- … (see Cittadino 1990, pp. 122–3, 128–30). Nägeli had argued that natural selection could only …
- … could account for changes in most morphological features (Nägeli 1865, p. 29). Darwin sent a …
- … The comment highlights Darwin’s apparent confusion about Nägeli’s separation of features into …
- … The modern reader may well share Darwin’s uncertainty, but Nägeli evidently believed the distinction …
- … could only be altered by his perfectibility principle (Nägeli 1865, pp. 28–9). In further letters, …
- … Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any variation in …
- … troubled at the short duration of the world according to Sir W. Thompson, for I require for my …
- … ability to recognise the different varieties ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February [1869] ). …
- … ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 7 May 1869 , letter from W. B. Dawkins, 17 July 1869 ). He …
- … species that Darwin had investigated in depth ( letter from C. F. Claus, 6 February 1869 ). In a …
- … genus that he had studied in the early 1860s ( letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March 1869 ). This …
- … on the previous German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867), as well as on the German translation …
- … whole meeting was decidedly Huxley’s answer to D r M c Cann. He literally poured boiling oil …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … to Darwin (as well as to Carl Gegenbaur, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck), …
- … on Darwin’s theory, such as that of Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, were also influenced by the authors’ …
- … began work on the new translation (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867), incorporating the revisions Darwin …
