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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
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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- … was far more extensive than Darwin had anticipated. As a result, Descent , like Variation , …
- … the material on emotion; it would eventually appear as a separate book in 1872 ( Expression of the …
- … Lyell, ‘thank all the powers above & below, I shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding …
- … anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
- … corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
- … eighteen years of age. Darwin clearly expected her to make a considerable contribution, instructing …
- … He worried that parts of the book were ‘too like a Sermon: who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn …
- … abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
- … looking exclusively into his own mind’, and himself, ‘a degraded wretch looking from the outside …
- … how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
- … side of human descent. On 7 March 1870, Darwin made a note on the shape of human ears: ‘W. has seen …
- … made drawings of ears of monkeys & shortly afterwards he saw a man with tip & instantly …
- … in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
- … patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
- … muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
- … make it scream without hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] ). Darwin …
- … has a white forefoot’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 12 May 1870 ). But in general the results …
- … in Bastian’s solutions of the same kind’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1870] ). Bastian’s …
- … on to the last of my uncomfortable days’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] ). But he had …
- … to be thus killed by a man of 86’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). On learning of this, …
- … I know no more than the man in the moon’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). Horace …
- … believe in bad motives in others’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 15 November [1870] ). Fox reassured him, …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … – and, taken together, letters and publications form a series of overlapping conversations with …
- … expect it to be so popular, but because he saw it as a temporary stop-gap. He still intended to …
- … edition, both of which came out just weeks later, solely as a chance to make corrections or …
- … his business elsewhere if they weren’t willing to produce a new edition: ‘I feel sure that the …
- … final one published in Darwin’s lifetime) was prefaced by a long list of alterations. Tracing the …
- … these changes. While some were improvements in style, and a few corrected errors, the bulk …
- … his points, or revised and expanded his thinking. Stung by a reported comment from Richard Owen that …
- … on naval timber, and in later re-writings itself became a place for skirmishes over priority with …
- … no changes in the typeface, size or binding. The fifth had a different cover, and smaller margins to …
- … wants another instantly… Darwin heard that a new edition was already needed on 24 …
- … buried Darwin under a blizzard of letters (see especially letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October …
- … getting permission to quote prominently from Kingsley’s letter in the revised summary: A …
- … sufficiently acknowledged earlier work. According to a letter to Asa Gray he had yet to start …
- … an animal’s colour and its immunity to poison (see letter from Jeffries Wyman, [ c . 15] …
- … Darwin added the account to Origin 3d ed. , p. 12. Its significance, as he explained to …
- … hitherto slurred it over. In his Christmas Day letter to his old friend Joseph Hooker, …
- … of population increase in elephants in response to a letter published in the Athenaeum by a …
