Explains that he cannot agree with Mantegazza’s views on sexual selection.
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Explains that he cannot agree with Mantegazza’s views on sexual selection.
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.