From:
Thomas Travers Sherlock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 157
Summary:
Encloses some notes on Descent [2d ed.]. Discusses CD’s contention [p. 130] that natural selection could not act to increase altruistic behaviour in man; considers that the benefits conferred upon a person exhibiting such virtues would outweigh the threat to survival that such behaviour would pose.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project