A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man.

2 Fairbanks ([32]) puts to rest the rumor that Darwin held an uncut offprint of Mendel's famous paper, and examines Mendel's annotations of his own German copy of I The Origin of Species i . 3 Lil Dicky, "Darwin", accessed 23 November, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bty4auO6eg 4 Coming to the defense of the "great man" view of history, Philip Ball cites some interesting speculations by the historian and philosopher of science James Lennox in (Ball ([4]). An essay review inspired by Jeremy DeSilva, ed., A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021). Footnotes 1 See George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll's confident pronouncement in Campbell ([14]), and Darwin's naturalist prediction in Darwin ([18]). 17 Lyell ([50]) pushed humankind's origins back in time immeasurably; Huxley ([43]) argued for the anatomical similarities between humans and apes; and Wallace ([70]) did what Darwin had been afraid to do in the I Origin i , before making a U-turn. [Extracted from the article]