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Darwin Correspondence Project

Charles Staniland Wake

1835–1910

Anthropologist and solicitor. Solicitor in London and Hull from 1858; emigrated to America in the early 1890s. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and pioneer of evolutionary social anthropology; published The evolution of morality (1878), and wrote on serpent worship and on marriage and kinship.

Source

Grayling et al. 2007, p. 3281.

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