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From:
Balfour, G. W.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[27 March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 314
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
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