Re: Are we "special"?

Rohinton Collins (rohinton@collins.prestel.co.uk)
12 Dec 1996 17:27:52 GMT

Thomas Clarke <clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu> wrote in article
<58n606$rc6@news.cc.ucf.edu>...
>
> You may have given up too easily. Why is it flawed thinking?
>
> Something that occurred to me while driving to work in my internal
> combustion engined wheeled vehicle:
>
> Darwin's two major works were the "Origin of Species"
> and the "Descent of Man".
>
> From this I would conclude that Darwin recognized something special
> about humans.
>
> Tom Clarke

In the entire volume of The Origin of Species, there is only one reference
to how mankind fit into the picture, right at the end of the book.

Roh