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Thomson, Charles Wyville. 1873d. Notes from the ‘Challenger’. Nature, 8 May 1873, pp. 28–30; 15 May 1873, pp. 51–3; 5 June 1873, pp. 109–10; 10 July 1873, pp. 246–9; 31 July 1873, pp. 266–7; 28 August 1873, pp. 347–9; 18 September 1873, pp. 400–3.

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  • … Wyville. 1873d. Notes from the ‘Challenger’. Nature , 8 May 1873, pp. 28–30; 15 May 1873, …
  • … September 1873, pp. 400–3. https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008028a0.pdf …
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To Nature   6 May [1876]

Summary

Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  6 May [1876]
Classmark:  Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10498

Matches: 9 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    6 May [1876] …
  • Nature , 11 May 1876, p. …
  • … 28 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 May [1876] Nature
  • … Cherry Blossoms In the last number of Nature (vol.  xiv. , p.  10), Mr.  Pryor states that …
  • … is established by the publication of this letter in Nature , 11 May 1876. A letter on the …
  • … by birds, written by Alfred Reginald Pryor , was published in Nature , 4 May 1876, p. 10. …
  • … with respect to primrose flowers in Nature , 23 April 1874, p. 482, and 14 May 1874, pp. …
  • … 5 ( Correspondence vol. 22, letters to Nature , 18 April [1874] and 7 and 11 May [1874]). …

To Nature   13 November [1869]

Summary

Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.

Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  13 Nov [1869]
Classmark:  Nature 1 (1869): 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6987

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    13 November [1869] …
  • Nature 1 (1869): 85 Charles Robert …
  • … Darwin Down 13 Nov [1869] Nature
  • … Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [ Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter- …
  • … On the fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. Nature 1: 11–13. Correspondence : The …
  • … year is established by the publication date of the letter in Nature. See letter from A.   …
  • … W.  Bennett to Nature , 8 November 1869; Alfred William Bennett’s letter …
  • … was published in the 11 November 1869 issue of Nature. For an example of one of CD’s many …
  • … mentioned the bell-glass in his letter to Nature , 8 November 1869. In both Bennett 1869 , …
  • … and the letter from A.  W.  Bennett to Nature , 8 November 1869, Bennett only mentioned …

To Nature   [before 27 March 1879]

Summary

In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 27 Mar 1879]
Classmark:  Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8826

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    [before 27 March 1879] …
  • Nature , 27 March 1879, p.   …
  • … 481 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 27 Mar 1879] Nature
  • … In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were …
  • … Rats and Water-Casks Mr. Nicols says, in Nature , vol.  xix. p.  433:— “A ship’s carpenter …
  • … The date is established by the date of the issue of Nature in which the letter appeared. …
  • … Arthur Nicols had written to Nature about animal intelligence, as shown by rats …
  • … gnawing through water pipes to get water ( Nature , 20 February 1879, p. 365); his second …
  • … here by CD, was in response to objections ( Nature , 13 March 1879, p. 433). Nicols had …

To Nature   24 February [1877]

Summary

Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  24 Feb [1877]
Classmark:  19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9872F

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    24 February [1877] …
  • … 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) Charles Robert Darwin 24 Feb [1877] Down Nature
  • … Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature . …
  • … the reference to the correspondence published in Nature , 8 March 1877 (see n. 2, below). …
  • … Joseph Norman Lockyer was the editor of Nature . The letter from A.  A.  van Bemmelen and …
  • … of 12 February 1877 were published in Nature , 8 March 1877, pp. 410–11, with a covering …
  • … think the correspondence worth inserting in Nature. But in this case I earnestly hope that …

To Nature   3 August [1872]

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Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.

Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  3 Aug [1872]
Classmark:  Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8448

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    3 August [1872] …
  • Nature , 8 August 1872, p.   …
  • … 279 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Aug [1872] Nature
  • … Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [ Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was …
  • … of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [ Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [ Exposition of …
  • … interpretation of Descent in a letter in Nature , 1 August 1872, p.  260. For CD’s views …
  • … date of publication of this letter in Nature. Alfred Russel Wallace’s review of Charles …
  • … of Mr.  Darwin ( Bree 1872 ) appeared in Nature , 25 July 1872, pp.  237–9. According to …

To Nature   [before 2 November 1876]

Summary

Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 2 Nov 1876]
Classmark:  Nature, 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10660

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    [before 2 November 1876] …
  • Nature , 2 November 1876, pp. …
  • … 18–19 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 2 Nov 1876] Nature
  • … St George Jackson. 1876. Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter . London: …

To Nature   [before 24 July 1873]

Summary

Sends a letter from J. D. Hague confirming his earlier observation [see 8788] of frightened behaviour of ants when they come upon dead ants. CD had asked for confirmation because J. T. Moggridge had suggested that the ants’ behaviour was alarm at the scent of the observer’s fingers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 24 July 1873]
Classmark:  Nature, 24 July 1873, p. 244
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8985

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    [before 24 July 1873] …
  • Nature , 24 July 1873, p.   …
  • … 244 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 24 July 1873] Nature
  • … by the date of this letter’s publication in Nature . The extract from James Duncan …
  • … Hague’s letter of 26 February 1873 was published in Nature , 10 April 1873, p.   …
  • … 444 (see second letter to Nature , [before 3 April 1873]). The letter from Moggridge has …

To Nature   9 April [1880]

Summary

Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  9 Apr [1880]
Classmark:  Nature, 15 April 1880, p. 561
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12571

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    9 April [1880] …
  • Nature , 15 April 1880, p.   …
  • … 561 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Apr [1880] Nature
  • … mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [ Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The …
  • … by the publication date of the letter in Nature . Edward Sylvester Morse had enclosed a …
  • … s review of Morse 1879 was published in Nature , 12 February 1880, p. 350. The ‘s’ is …

To Nature   11 February [1874]

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Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  11 Feb [1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 19 February 1874, pp. 308–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9283

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    11 February [1874] …
  • Nature , 19 February 1874, pp.   …
  • … 308–9 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Feb [1874] Nature
  • … date of publication of this letter in Nature. See letter from Fritz Müller , [ c. January  …
  • … running series, ‘Fertilisation of flowers by insects’, in Nature ( H.  Müller 1873–7 ). …
  • … on the reciprocal adaptations of both. Nature , 3 July 1873, pp. 187–9; 10 July 1873, pp. …

To Nature   [before 6 April 1882]

Summary

Reports observations of W. D. Crick [see 13705, 13715, and 13721] and Frank Norgate [see 13079]. They leave no doubt that living bivalves are often carried from pond to pond.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 6 Apr 1882]
Classmark:  Nature 25 (1882): 529–30; Collected Papers 2: 276
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13760

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    [before 6 April 1882] …
  • Nature 25 (1882): 529–30; Collected Papers 2: 276 …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 6 Apr 1882] Nature

From W. T. Thiselton Dyer to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9424F

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  • … Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. Nature
  • … From W.  T.  Thiselton Dyer to Nature    [23–30 April 1874] …
  • Nature , 30 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 509 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [23-30 Apr 1874] Nature

From J. H. Gladstone to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancel: third-party letter.

Author:  John Hall Gladstone
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425F

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  • … Gladstone, J. H. Nature
  • … From J.  H.  Gladstone to Nature    [23–30 April 1874] …
  • Nature , 30 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 509 John Hall Gladstone [23-30 Apr 1874] Nature

From H. C. Key to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter from H. C. Key.

Author:  Henry Cooper Key
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425G

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  • … Key, H. C. Nature
  • … From H.  C.  Key to Nature    [23–30 April 1874] …
  • Nature , 30 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 509 Henry Cooper Key [23-30 Apr 1874] Nature

From G. M. Seabroke to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter from G. M. Seabrook.

Author:  George Mitchell Seabroke
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425H

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  • … Seabroke, G. M. Nature
  • … From G.  M.  Seabroke to Nature    [23–30 April 1874] …
  • Nature , 30 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 509 George Mitchell Seabroke [23-30 Apr 1874] Nature

To Nature   6 April [1874]

Summary

Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  6 Apr [1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 16 April 1874, p. 460
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9393

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    6 April [1874] …
  • Nature , 16 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 460 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Apr [1874] Nature
  • … T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [ Nature 9 (1874): 423]. …
  • … established by the date of publication of this letter in Nature. John Traherne Moggridge’s …
  • … of Fumaria capreolata appeared in Nature , 2 April 1874, p.  423. Moggridge’s letter was …

To Nature   [before 20 March 1879]

Summary

Comments on a letter from Fritz Müller [11839] and particularly on the subject of the disappearance of certain structures in organisms. FM’s explanation deserves serious consideration.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 20 Mar 1879]
Classmark:  Nature, 20 March 1879, pp. 462–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11945

Matches: 8 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    [before 20 March 1879] …
  • Nature , 20 March 1879, pp. …
  • … 462–3 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 20 Mar 1879] Nature
  • … organs ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Nature , 20 September [1873] ). Joseph Delboeuf …
  • … the date of publication of this letter in Nature . See also letter to J. N. Lockyer, 4 and …
  • … of use and disuse of organs appeared in Nature , 9 April 1874, pp. 440–1, and 2 July 1874, …
  • … Romanes 1874a and 1874b). CD had written to Nature discussing the rudimentary males of …

To Nature   1 July [1871]

Summary

Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  1 July [1871]
Classmark:  Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7846

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    1 July [1871] …
  • Nature , 6 July 1871, pp.   …
  • … 180–1 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 July [1871] Nature
  • … the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [ Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a …
  • … year of publication of the letter in Nature , 6 July 1871. Henry Hoyle Howorth’s letter …
  • … proportionate rate. ’ In his letter to Nature , Howorth had credited Thomas Doubleday with …

From T. R. Stebbing to Nature   [23–30 April 1874]

Summary

Cancelled: third-party letter.

Author:  Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [23-30 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9425I

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  • … Stebbing, T. R. R. Nature
  • … From T.  R.  Stebbing to Nature    [23–30 April 1874] …
  • Nature , 30 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 509 Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing [23-30 Apr 1874] Nature

To Nature   18 April [1874]

Summary

CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  18 Apr [1874]
Classmark:  Nature, 23 April 1874, p. 482
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9418

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Nature
  • … To Nature    18 April [1874] …
  • Nature , 23 April 1874, p.   …
  • … 482 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr [1874] Nature
  • … the date of publication of this letter in Nature. Greenfinch: Chloris chloris . Probably …
  • … birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses …
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties

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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…

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  • … that I had at length found the long-sought-for law of nature that solved the problem of the origin …
  • … even of those occurring among wild animals in a state of nature, and to constitute a provision for …
  • … on the assumption, that varieties occurring in a state of nature are in all respects analogous to or …
  • … is altogether false, that there is a general principle in nature which will cause many varieties to …
  • … laws which regulate the existence of animals in a state of nature, and from the undisputed fact that …
  • … examples, become strictly accurate. Now the scale on which nature works is so vast—the numbers of …
  • … dogs could never have come into existence in a state of nature, because the very first step towards …
  • … the ploughman’s team, would both be useless in a state of nature. If turned wild on the pampas, such …
  • … see, then, that no inferences as to varieties in a state of nature can be deduced from the …
  • … which never occur and never can occur in a state of nature: their very existence depends altogether …
  • … produced by the action of principles constantly at work in nature. The powerful retractile talons of …
  • … cause to account for that balance so often observed in nature,—a deficiency in one set of organs …
  • … We believe we have now shown that there is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of …
  • … the same principle which produces this result in a state of nature will also explain why domestic …

Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I

Summary

Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared.  Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…

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  • … outline of his theory on the ‘ means by which nature makes her species’, taking as his starting …
  • … if advantageous to it would be selected or preserved by nature; Hence Natural Selection— ’ and …
  • … because it at once connects variation under domestication & nature ’, other readers reinforced …
  • … varieties & would seem a truism; & would not bring man’s & nature’s selection under one …
  • … and in this case the individual differences given by nature, which man for some object selects, must …
  • … as ruling the movements of the planets? .  . .  I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and …

Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II

Summary

The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace.  Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…

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  • … degree indirect & incorrect, since, even personifying Nature, she does not so much select …
  • … when James Martineau, in his article ‘The place of mind in nature and intuition in man’ (J. …

Natural selection

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How do new species arise?  This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…

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  • … As he explained in On the Origin of Species (1859), nature was like the breeders whose works he …
  • … as wide as those between the Great Dane and the dachshund.  Nature, Darwin realised, worked in the …
  • … his appreciation of just how much variation there is in nature. While Darwin waited to …

The writing of "Origin"

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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

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  • … been celebrated as a classic example of divine design in nature. Darwin hypothesised that the …
  • … work that related to his chapter on variation under nature. Having learned in the summer of 1857 …
  • … could be trusted as evidence for what actually occurred in nature (see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April …

Sexual selection

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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species.  So what…

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  • … me sick!'  It was bound up with questions of beauty in nature, used by Darwin’s opponents, such …
  • … consequences of sexual selection publishing an article in Nature , in November 1876 on sexual …

Inheritance

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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited.  But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did.  Darwin’s attempt to…

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  • … Darwin wrote,‘When a new character arises, whatever its nature may be, it generally tends to be …
  • … Thomas Henry Huxley was worried that its speculative nature would give Darwin’s critics ammunition, …

Abstract of Darwin’s theory

Summary

There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…

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  • … of generations, who will say what he might not effect! In nature we have some  slight  variation, …
  • … cause of the child not exactly resembling its parents; & in nature geology shows us what changes …
  • … to seize on as many & as diverse places in the economy of nature, as possible. Each new variety …

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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  • … he went on, ‘we are sometimes able to see the nature of the connexion; but in most cases the bond is …
  • … modified through continued selection, either by man or under nature, other parts of the organisation …

Divergence

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In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…

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  • … to seize on as many and as diverse places in the economy of nature, as possible. Each new variety or …