Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
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Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
He has heard CD is about to be elected to the Académie des Sciences.
Cross and self-fertilisation, with its emphasis on insect pollination, helps explain the problem he has worked on for so long: i.e., the rapid diversification of angiosperms in the fossil record occurs in conjunction with the diversification of insects.
Discusses the difficulty of reconstructing angiosperm phylogeny.
Discovery of polar fossil plants helps explain migrations.
Hooker has identification of GdeS’s Permian fossil.
Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.
Sends his photograph; asks for CD’s.
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.