From Edward Blyth 26 April 1869
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Has found no difference between male and female rhesus monkeys at the Zoological Gardens in amount of facial hairiness. Observations on other monkeys.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: A107–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6713 |
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- … to request him to figure the Abyssinian wart-hog ( Phacochœrus Æliani ) that has recently …
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Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
