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Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Age: 96 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 20
Died: 1921
Died: November 5
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