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Descent of Darwin: race, sex, and human nature

2021-01-01

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Abstract In 1871, Charles Darwin published Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, a text that extended, elaborated and completed his On the Origin of Species (1859). When he had published Origin, Darwin sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to skirt controversy; in Descent he waded into the fray on near-innumerable issues. Readers could find explicit the claim that humans had descended from apes, in addition to...

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Literature Corpus work: 3d8a03e8-d6a5-551d-be63-2db981b7482d
DOI: 10.1017/bjt.2021.9

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