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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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  • … essays (later revised as  Genesis of species (Mivart 1871)), Mivart tried to carve out a position …
  • … a matter of national pride by the Belgian zoologist Edouard van Beneden when the Belgian Academy …
  • … work is above all attacks’  ( letter from Edouard van Beneden, 17 December 1870 ). A more …
  • … Bruce, about the possibility of inserting a question in the 1871 census about cousin marriage. …