...survival of the fittest. There was no mention of man - except a brief comment in the conclusion that 'light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' - but Darwin's views on that subject emerged clearly in the rest of the book. Man was not 'made in...

...113. 205 177 Beer, op. cit., p. 127. 178 Darwin, Origin, op. cit., p. 459. 206 179 Ibid., p. 458 - 'Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history'. 207 180 Ward, op. cit., p. 278. 208 181 C. Kingsley, The Water Babies (London, 209 1863; Penguin edn....

...human evolution. The British naturalist Charles Darwin, who published the book in 1859, says only that, "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." The nervous young scientist preferred to leave readers to draw their own conclusions. And draw them...

...Darwins Theorie der natürlichen Auslese 1859 einmal mehr aktualisiert wurde. Darin versprach er: „Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (Darwin [1859] 1958: 458). Unter dem Paradigma des Evolutionismus wurde - zunächst in England - auch...

...end of his monumental book, On the Origins of Species: "In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" (Darwin, 1859). This Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, published 146 years after Darwin's prophetic...

...Charles Darwin which had provided the conclusion to The Origin of Species some 1 50 years previously: In the distant future I see open fields for far more...researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, mat of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown...

...them."5 As Darwin came to the end of his treatise, he was explicit about the deistic stand he was taking. "Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully...that each species has been independently created," but this was not Darwin's position. "To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed...

...have contributed to the long delay in the publication of The Origin of Species. The form of words— "that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" — is also of note because it expresses clearly Darwin's predilection for a gradualist account of...

...365. 152 Darwin, Über die Entstehung der Arten, S. 564. Engl. Darwin, The Origin of Species, „Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." 428. 153 Der Begriff Urpßan^e wurde 1787 von Goethe geprägt. Jahn, Ilse: „Biologie" als allgemeine...

...text only mentioned the development of humanity in a single enigmatic sentence in the final passages: "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." 77 Her particular interest, moreover, was the development of women. Evolution had weakened them, made...