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Darwin's The Descent of Man 150 years on — sex, race and our 'lowly' ape ancestry

  • Written by Ian Hesketh, ARC Future Fellow and Association Professor, The University of Queensland
Darwin's The Descent of Man 150 years on — sex, race and our 'lowly' ape ancestryJared Rice/Unsplash

When Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was first published in On the Origin of Species in 1859, the book was conspicuously silent about how his theory applied to humans.

Darwin's The Descent of Man 150 years on — sex, race and our 'lowly' ape ancestry

Darwin believed the subject of human evolution was so “surrounded with prejudices” he was determined to avoid it entirely.

It was only when...

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