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Continuity and exceptionalism in Charles Darwin (2023)

Dairon Alfonso Rodríguez Ramírez (Author)

Almagest
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Pages: 46-52
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1484/J.ALMA.5.136757

URI: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.ALMA.5.136757

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This article is an analysis of Darwin’s attempt to reconcile naturalism and exceptionalism in The Descent of Man. The principle of gradual evolution, which had already been set out in the Origin of Species, was reinterpreted, and extended beyond the morphological characteristics of living things into the range of characteristics considered exceptional for the human species: abstract reasoning, morality, and numeracy. To explain the natural origin of these unique capacities, Darwin will introduce a series of additional hypotheses in which speech, which would have arisen from the ability to produce different sounds at will, serves as a scaffold for the development of the other distinctive human capacities. It is in this way that Darwin will attempt to dispel any doubts about the animal origin of human beings

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