AHRC-NSF MOU International Initiative in the History of Evolutionary Views of Human Nature

该奖项将支持研究、编辑和出版1871年至1873年这段关键时期所有写给达尔文的信件，当时达尔文正在撰写他的著作《人类的起源》和《人类和动物的情感表达》。这一时期是达尔文一生中最重要的时期之一，也是最具争议的时期之一。该奖项将使PI能够培养科学史上的年轻学者，他们将积极为获奖系列出版物《查尔斯达尔文的通信》做出贡献。它还有助于在哈佛大学和英国剑桥大学之间建立重要的国际合作，汇集查尔斯达尔文和人文科学的专业知识，并广泛借鉴两所大学的奖学金。该项目将在很大程度上得到联合王国艺术和人文研究理事会的支持，通过澳大利亚人权委员会和国家科学基金会之间的一项国际倡议。研究目的是探索达尔文关于人类生物学本质的开创性建议背后的理论和证据。这将通过出版达尔文在这一时期的所有已知信件（包括大约2000封信件）和提供解释内容的学术笔记沿着丰富的额外解释材料来实现。《查尔斯达尔文的书信》的目标是使这一非凡的档案材料既可以通过印刷品也可以通过网络向广大读者开放。该系列的前几卷因其卓越的编辑程序和研究成果的可访问性而赢得赞誉。年轻学者将加入一个著名的国际团队，并接受目前历史科学中最有价值的编辑方法培训之一。尽管一些学术和大众的叙述已经解决了其中的几个问题，但在达尔文的档案中，只有一小部分文件是现成的。该项目将改变对达尔文关于人类的理论的理解，并为地球仪的读者提供免费访问基本原始文件的机会。

This award will support work to research, edit, and publish all the letters to and from Darwin in the crucial years 1871 to 1873 when Darwin was producing his books On the Descent of Man and On the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. This period was one of the most significant in Darwin's life, and one of the most controversial. This award will enable the PI to foster young scholars in the history of science who will actively contribute to the award-winning series of publications The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. It also serves to establish significant international collaboration between Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, UK, bringing together expertise on Charles Darwin and the human sciences, and drawing widely on scholarship in the two universities. The project will be supported in large part by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, by way of an International Initiative between AHRC and NSF. The research aim is to explore the theories and evidence underlying Darwin's pioneering proposals about the biological nature of humankind. This will be achieved by publishing all Darwin's known correspondence in the period (consisting of about 2000 letters) and by providing scholarly notes that explain the content along with copious additional interpretative material. The goal of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin is to make this remarkable archival material accessible both in print and online to a wide audience. Previous volumes in the series have won praise for the excellence of its editorial procedures and the accessibility of its research findings. Young scholars will join a noted international team and receive one of the most highly valued trainings in editorial methods currently available in the historical sciences. Even though a number of scholarly and popular accounts have already addressed several of these questions, only a small proportion of the full range of documents in Darwin's archive have been readily available. This project will transform understanding of Darwin's theories about humankind and provide free access to fundamental original documents to readers across the globe.