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Did Darwin say this?[edit]

I've seen the following quote floating around the Internet attributed to Charles Darwin. Usually it's either quoted approvingly by racists on sites such as Chimpmania, or else by creationists to attack him.

"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla."

Given that other racist quotes have been falsely attributed to Darwin in the past by creationists and racists for their respective purposes (one such quote was from Thomas Dixon's novel, The Clansmen), I'm skeptical the above quote was actually Darwin. But you never know. 97.116.72.212 (talk) 21:24, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Article talk pages are for discussion of article improvements, not general discussion of the article subject. If you have general questions rather than article suggestions, you can try the Reference Desk. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me}

Well, I think that if the quote DOES turn out to be accurate, then it should go in the article as an example of his views. So it's not entirely unrelated to the article. That said I definitely will submit this to the Reference Desk. 2600:1014:B024:12AF:D8C:772B:5474:843E (talk) 23:19, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

It seems that this is a direct quote from the Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, a book written by Charles Darwin. So yes, he did say this.

Please sign your posts. A reliable secondary source is needed to show what CD's writing signify. His words should not be taken out of context, or misinterpreted on the basis of modern racial sensitivities. . . dave souza, talk 22:13, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

the beagle[edit]

it was created in denmark — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.253.24.235 (talk) 17:21, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Presumably a replica? . . dave souza, talk 21:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Mary Treat[edit]

I don't think it's right that there should be no mention of his scientific interactions with any women. It seems the most important such was with Mary Treat so I've taken the liberty of inserting her in the infobox and text NBeale (talk) 21:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Seems sensible to me. HiLo48 (talk) 23:16, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Looks a bit undue in this brief overview of CS's life, I've left it in the article since you've put it as a "for example", but removed it from the infobox as that was intended to be people he'd had personal contact with, and had significant influence on the development of science. He corresponded with many women about scientific work, Clémence Royer for example, and the source cited Lady Florence Dixie as another. It would be good to expand the detailed sub-articles on CD's life, but for this main page significance would be better established by citing one of the main biographies rather than a brief paper on his dealings with women. . . dave souza, talk 22:07, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Leaning technique[edit]

I've found this information while I was working on Polish article about Feynman Technique (I'm working on English Translation) I wanted to include the sentence that similar technique was used by Charles Darwin. He was trying to explain what he was working on in simple terms to someone imaginary that came into the room, but I've only have Polish reference (book) and was not able to find a reference about this in English.

Do you know any reference that confirm that?

jcubic (talk) 11:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

It's not familiar, is this the concept referred to in Active recall? Perhaps if you can give some more detail about what Darwin's supposed to have done and when he did it, that might enable s search. . . . dave souza, talk 14:55, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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