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John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
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- … In 1869 Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with a John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol who had …
- … sexual partner. Darwin was fascinated by some research that Beddoe had published analysing married …
- … Review (1863) 1: 310–12). Three letters from Beddoe to Darwin survive, but so far none of …
- … in Cambridge, combined and re-analysed the data. Both Beddoe and Darwin came to the conclusion …
- … of hair with age. Darwin wrote regretfully at the top of Beddoe's last letter "I must …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
