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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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- … 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 …
- … Darwin commented on Mivart’s 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 …
