From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 37
Summary:
Michele Lessona will translate Descent into Italian [1871].
Sends his review from Nuova Antologia [17 (1871): 177–94].
In a letter to Archivio per l’Anthropologia he raises some doubts about sexual selection and proposes "Neogenesis" as a complement to natural selection in cases of rapid change.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project