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

该奖项将支持研究、编辑和出版达尔文在1871年至1873年关键年份的所有信件，当时达尔文正在出版他的著作《人类的起源》和《人与动物的情感表达》。这是达尔文一生中最重要的时期之一，也是最具争议性的时期之一。这一奖项将使国际和平协会能够培养科学史上的年轻学者，他们将积极为屡获殊荣的系列出版物《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·达尔文和人文科学方面的专业知识，并广泛利用两所大学的学术成果。该项目将在很大程度上得到英国艺术和人文研究理事会的支持，这是AHRC和NSF之间的一项国际倡议。这项研究的目的是探索达尔文关于人类生物本质的开创性主张背后的理论和证据。这将通过出版达尔文在那个时期的所有已知信件(由大约2000封信件组成)和提供解释内容的学术笔记以及丰富的额外解释材料来实现。查尔斯·达尔文书信的目标是让广大受众能够在印刷版和在线上获取这些非凡的档案材料。该系列的前几卷因其卓越的编辑程序和易于获得的研究结果而赢得赞誉。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。尽管一些学术和流行的描述已经解决了其中的几个问题，但达尔文档案中的所有文件中只有一小部分是现成的。这个项目将改变对达尔文关于人类理论的理解，并向全球读者提供免费获取基本原始文献的机会。

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.