Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker after finishing corrections to the fifth edition of Origin of Species in 1869.
No paradox that unimportant characters are important systematically. This view removes heavy burden from CD's shoulders. Relief that JDH does not object.
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