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From:
George Howard Darwin
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Nature
Date:
4 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 16 October 1873, p. 505
Summary:

Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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