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Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … views on all points will have to be modified.— Well it is a beginning, & that is something. …
  • … – and, taken together, letters and publications form a series of overlapping conversations with …
  • … expect it to be so popular, but because he saw it as a temporary stop-gap.  He still intended to …
  • … edition, both of which came out just weeks later, solely as a chance to make corrections or …
  • … up to the 6 th (the final one published in Darwin’s lifetime) was prefaced by a long list of …
  • … in the changes that mattered to him most. Darwin’s friends were still sending comments on the …
  • … buried Darwin under a blizzard of letters (see especially letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October …
  • … 11 September Darwin was still trying to incorporate Lyell’s corrections as late as 20 September. …
  • … of domestic dogs , but the change that went to Darwin’s heart was the deletion of a reference …
  • … , getting permission to quote prominently from Kingsley’s letter in the revised summary: A …
  • … version of the text available.  (Read more on Darwin's additions to the US edition of …
  • … sufficiently acknowledged earlier work.  According to a letter to Asa Gray he had yet to start …
  • … an animal’s colour and its immunity to poison (see letter from Jeffries Wyman, [ c . 15] …
  • … US edition ). Readers from all over the world, such as a Dr Merrell, a homeopathic doctor from Iowa …
  • … hitherto slurred it over. In his Christmas Day letter to his old friend Joseph Hooker, …
  • … of population increase in elephants in response to a letter published in the Athenaeum by a …