Edward Aveling
English anatomist, writer and activist (1849–1898)
Edward Bibbins Aveling was an English comparative anatomist, botanist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism, and socialism. He was also a journalist, editor, playwright, actor, short story writer and poet. Aveling was the author of scientific works and numerous literary and political pamphlets that were published by The Freethought Publishing Company; he is perhaps best known for his popular work The Student's Darwin (1881) that appeared in the 'International Freethought and Science' series; he also translated the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
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