From:
John Denison Baldwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 21
Summary:
Has studied CD’s books and accepts evolution without giving up belief in creation of first forms.
On theory in Descent, suggests offspring of the original [human] progenitor dispersed before a human stage arrived at; this would account for races and languages with no discernible common origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project