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- W106261166 abstract "In his autobiography Charles Darwin (1809-1882) wrote � with hindsight � that he happened to read Thomas Robert Malthus�s essay on population in October 1838 and that he was �at once struck� by the crucial insight that natural selection had to be the mechanism of evolution. However, as Howard Gruber and others have shown, this insight did not come as a sudden �Eureka� moment. There is nothing in Darwin�s manuscript that indicates any particular excitement and it seems as if it only gradually dawned on him how important this Malthusian insight was.Darwin does suggest in his autobiography that, before he could be struck by Malthus�s essay, he was �well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence (...) from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants�, but the �preparation� by his reading in the same period cannot be neglected either. Thanks to Darwin�s own reading lists, his marginalia and his notebooks, it becomes clear that Malthus�s essay was merely one of the numerous books Darwin was reading in the Fall of 1838. This does not diminish the undoubtedly important role Malthus has played as a catalyst in the writing process of the theory of evolution, but no one of Darwin�s books is quite the same as if it had been read without the others, as Gillian Beer has duly pointed out : �The miscegenation of texts is a powerful and uncontrollable force�.Starting from the examination of Darwin�s personal library, the proposed paper will investigate how the origins of this conceptual breakthrough relate to the gradual development of Darwin�s thoughts. Based on a comparative analysis of the style of Darwin�s marginalia in his books, the elliptical style of his loose thoughts jotted down in his �transmutation notebooks�, his �pencil sketch� of 1842 and the draft of his �essay� of 1844, the proposed paper is an attempt to show how gradual the genesis of Darwin�s thoughts proceeded, not from a biological or historical perspective, but from the vantage point of genetic criticism." @default.
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