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Darwin, Charles

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Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinizing each new review, as one by one all the major media of the day carried notices of the book. To those who express their views privately in letters, Darwin responds patiently and thoughtfully, answering their objections and attempting to guide their fuller understanding of the operation of natural selection. His more personal thoughts emerge in letters to his friends Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley. This volume presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.

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This volume is dominated by the response to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. The volume presents a wealth of detailed information, revealing how the Victorians coped with a theory that would revolutionise thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.

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"...presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry." The Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

"...Marked by the same thorough and painstaking scholarship as earlier volumes, the eighth volume of the Darwin correspondence provides a splendid documentary record of the life of Darwin and his circle through a most eventful year." Leonard G. Wilson, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date1993
ISBN 10 0521442419
ISBN 13 9780521442411
BindingHardcover
Edition number1
Number of pages824
EditorBurkhardt Frederick, Browne Janet, Porter Duncan M., Richmond Marsha

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