Author: Tobias, Phillip V.
Title: Darwin, 'Descent' and disease. An essay on the centenary of the publication of The Descent of Man (1871).
Description: reprint from Trans. roy. Soc. S. Afr., vol. 40 [1972], part 4, pp. 239-260; portrait, references, large 8vo, stapled in paper cover. ¶ Fourth A.J. Orenstein Lecture under the auspices of the Museum of the History of Medicine and the Royal Society of South Africa. On Darwin's lifelong illness, its psychoneurotic elements, possible hereditary factors, organic causes - perhaps the Chagas Syndrome?

Keywords: Darwin evolutie, mens