A New York chemist sets out what science of his day could say about the origin of human beings: an analysis of the body’s chemistry, Kant’s theory of the heavens, natural and sexual selection and Haeckel’s chart of man’s development. Its talk of savage and civilised races carries the assumptions of 1880.
A revealing snapshot of how the Darwinian debate looked to an American scientist two decades after On the Origin of Species. Download the free EPUB.