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"Curiously parallel": analogies of language and race in Darwin's Descent of man. A reply to Gregory Radick. Print E-mail
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"Curiously parallel": analogies of language and race in Darwin's Descent of man. A reply to Gregory Radick.

Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2008 Sep;39(3):355-8

Authors: Alter SG

In the second chapter of The descent of man (1871), Charles Darwin interrupted his discussion of the evolutionary origins of language to describe ten ways in which the formation of languages and of biological species were 'curiously' similar. I argue that these comparisons served mainly as analogies in which linguistic processes stood for aspects of biological evolution. Darwin used these analogies to recapitulate themes from On the origin of species (1859), including common descent, genealogical classification, the struggle for existence, and natural selection, among others. Skeptical of this interpretation, Gregory Radick sees the naturalistic account of language formation in the Descent comparisons as reinforcing Darwin's idea that languages and the races of mankind have both undergone progressive development. (The opposite view was that modern-day primitive peoples had degenerated from an originally civilized condition.) Yet the details of Darwin's language-species comparisons, as well as the polemical context in which they appear, show that they were not aimed at so limited a function. Rather, they addressed issues related to species transmutation in general.

PMID: 18761287 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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