From Charles Lyell1 27 September 1860
27th. Septr. 1860
– I am haunted with a kind of misgiving, which bye & bye I shall be able to express more clearly—that the multiple origin of the dog will furnish an argument for the multiple origin of a Mammal, or of Man. Do try to consider it that way, for I incline to go far with Hooker (& with you?) in believing that whatever is true in domestication is essentially possible in Nature also, & I am not sure that you confine the multiple origin of the dog to Man’s selection.
Footnotes
Summary
Fears that multiple origin of the domestic dog will be extended to mammals or man. Believes, with Hooker, that whatever occurs in domestication is possible in nature.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2930A
- From
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 12)
- Physical description
- CC 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2930A,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2930A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8