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From J. N. Hoare   10 April 1871

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Sends quotations from Xenophon and Horace pointing to sexual selection. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 29 n.]

Author:  John Newenham Hoare
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 147–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7673
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4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin

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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…

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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … I will not pretend to say. \looseness1   Page 410, par. 1, lines 19–25, substitute for …