From Paolo Mantegazza 10 June 1871
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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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Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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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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- … of Australia. Page 424, par. 2, lines 6–10, substitute for ‘I have . . . agency.’: 52 …