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DCP-LETT-7963F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paolo Mantegazza
Date:
22 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Archivio della Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia 2 (1872): 112
Summary:

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

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DCP-LETT-7814

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.

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