HIST 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thomas Henry Huxley, Second Voyage Of Hms Beagle, Calcar Avis
20 Apr 2016
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Background: darwin"s thinking on human evolution and the descent of man (1871) Notebook c (1838): man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and i believe true to consider him created from animals. 1871: the descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (2 volumes) 1872: the expression of emotions in man and animals. Agreed on much wallace was the co-discoverer of evolution. Differed on the question of human evolution. Wallace: natural selection is insufficient in explaining human evolution. Darwin: everything human could emerged from animals: Thomas henry huxley, ernst haecket, and carl vogt campaigned for darwin while most sided with wallace. 113), chapter iii: comparison of mental powers of. Took the example of the eye (popularly used by natural theology to explain the complexity of a creator) and cited cases where in which he could explain the process of development through natural selection.
