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Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … facts will throw much light on the origin of language. (1) Were you able to trace the sound of mum …
List of correspondents
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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,…
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- … "A child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Grant (13) Allen, J. A. (b) (1) …
- … (1) Appleton, C. E. C. B. (2) Appleton, T. G. …
- … C. F. (1) Aveling, E. B. (7) Axon, W …
- … Bacon, Booth (1) Badger, E. W. (3) …
- … W. H. (1) Bain, Alexander (b) (1) …
- … Bates, H. W. (91) Bathoe, M. B. (1) …
- … E. H. von (2) Baxter, E. B. (1) …
- … Beale, L. S. (2) Beall, T. B. (1) …
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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- … a difficulty for his theory ( Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1). Croll’s theory, simply stated, proposed …
