The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867

by Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, James Secord, The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project

Overview

During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research that were to result in two important publications, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin circulated a questionnaire on human expression, asking his established contacts to pass it on to their acquaintances, with the result that he began to receive letters from an even more diverse and far-flung network of correspondents than had previously been the case. Convinced that human descent was strongly influenced by sexual selection, he also started to ask his correspondents about sexual differences in animals and birds. At the same time, he was working on the proof-sheets of another major work, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, while negotiating almost weekly with French, German, and Russian translators. For information on the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521859318
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2006
Series:	The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Pages:	750
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.69(d)

About the Author

Date of Birth:

February 12, 1809

Date of Death:

April 19, 1882

Place of Birth:

Shrewsbury, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of provenances; Note on editorial policy; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; THE CORRESPONDENCE; Appendixes: I. Translations, II. Chronology, III. Diplomas, IV. Darwin's queries about expression; Manuscript alterations and comments; Biographical register and index to correspondents; Bibliography; Notes on manuscript sources; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...meticulous biographical details and explanatory notes…The most recent volumes of Darwin's correspondence shed new light on the complex question of the Origin's reception and Darwin's responses to his critics…they allow us to see Darwin in his proper historical context." — Times Literary Supplement

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