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From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 32
Summary:

CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Responds to GdeS’s comments on Descent [see 8246]. Cannot give up belief in close relationship of man to higher Simiae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project