Charles Darwin
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages · author page
Darwin · Mr. Darwin
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Naturalist whose Descent of Man is invoked as scientific support for the Patriarchal theory.
Darwin’s opinion.
Darwin appears to me to have been conducted by his own observations and studies to a view of the primitive condition of mankind, which cannot be distinguished from this theory.
Darwin’s conjecture that these phenomena belong to a ‘later period when man had advanced in his intellectual power but retrograded in his instincts,’ and partly in McLennan’s hypothesis of a great (and, he appears to think, an universal) deficiency of women in the primitive groups of men.
Applied Eugenics
Naturalist who elaborated an hypothesis about how bodily characters are represented in the germ-cell, associated with the older view that bodies produce germ-cells.
and Darwin elaborated an ingenious hypothesis to explain how the various characters could be represented in the germ-cell.
Law in a Free State
Naturalist cited for his theory of the evolutionary origin of music from primitive emotional cries.
Readers of Darwin's theory of the origin of music are aware that the cries of our early ancestors expressed the coarsest feelings—rage, fear, hate, lust.