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Race, Civilization, and Progress

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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…

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  • … Italian botanist Federico Delpino and the American zoologist Alpheus Hyatt. In the last edition of …
  • … inborn in all things." Letter 8658 : to Alpheus Hyatt, 4 December [1872] …
  • … Letter 13230 : Darwin to Graham, William, 3 July 1881 "I could show fight on natural …