How can an English bishop and a French évêque help Darwin explain his theories about species and natural selection? In the middle of the nineteenth century, linguists were concerned with establishing genetic relationships between the English language and cognates (words that have a common etymological origin) in various other Indo-European languages. Hensleigh Wedgwood , Emma [...]
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It’s all in the language !
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged analogies, Darwin, evolution, language on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
