... been often quoted but rarely analyzed. I argue here that they provide a means for following Darwin’s thought as he grappled with contemporary ethnological evidence that seemed—if today’s “savages” were to be taken as models for primeval humans—to work against his theory of sexual selection...

.... Those colleagues thus constituted a society that established nature by its own practices. © 2014 by the Regents of the University of California 2014 Charles Darwin classification taxonomy evolution natural selection sexual selection PETER DEAR* Darwin s Sleepwalkers: Naturalists, Nature...