Affiliation:
1. Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, UK
Abstract
The period around the publication of John Lubbock's
Origin of civilisation
in 1870 and Charles Darwin's
Descent of man and selection in relation to sex
the following year is key to a re-evaluation of the relationship between the two men, usually characterized as that of pupil and master. It is in the making of
Descent
that Lubbock's role as a scientific collaborator is most easily discerned, a role best understood within the social and political context of the time. Lubbock made Darwin—both the man and his science—acceptable and respectable. Less obvious is Darwin's conscious cultivation of Lubbock's patronage in both his private and public life, and Lubbock's equally conscious bestowal, culminating in his role in Darwin's burial in Westminster Abbey.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science
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4 articles.
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