From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrico Morselli
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Piero Leonardi (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks EM for essay ["Sopra un rara anomalia dell’osso malare", Annu. Soc. Nat. Modena 7 (1873): 1–50]. CD agrees as far as he understands. Cannot see how new modifications could arise by atavism. "The more I study nature, the more I feel convinced that species generally change by extremely slight modifications."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project