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To Paolo Mantegazza   22 September 1871

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Explains that he cannot agree with Mantegazza’s views on sexual selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Paolo Mantegazza
Date:  22 Sept 1871
Classmark:  Archivio della Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia 2 (1872): 112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7963F

From Paolo Mantegazza   10 June 1871

Summary

Michele Lessona will translate Descent into Italian [1871].

Sends his review from Nuova Antologia [17 (1871): 177–94].

In a letter to Archivio per l’Anthropologia he raises some doubts about sexual selection and proposes "Neogenesis" as a complement to natural selection in cases of rapid change.

Author:  Paolo Mantegazza
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7814
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