It was in this extreme and far away place that on December 18, 1832 a 24-year-old Charles Darwin first encountered indigenous non-Europeans in their native land. The experience impressed him greatly, and made a major and probably crucial contribution to his theory of evolution, especially as it applies to humans.
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We have just received copies of PRI Special Publication No. 61, a biography of Cornell’s first geology professor Charles Frederick Hartt (1840-1878) by William (Bill) Brice (Cornell PhD 1971; Prof. Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown) and Silvia de Mendonça Figueirôa, Professor at Universidade Estaual de Campinas in Brazil.
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