SOURCE: "Fit and Misfitting: Anthropomorphism and the Natural Order," in Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Ark, 1983, 49-76.
In the following essay, Beer explores Darwin's use of language in describing the place of man within his theory of nature.
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