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From:
Henry Bowman Brady
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 277
Summary:

On visit to Boston was told by N. S. Shaler how habits of rattlesnake are consistent with natural selection. Informs CD, as rattlesnake is considered by some a difficult case for his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Bowman Brady
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 278
Summary:

Explains further N. S. Shaler’s view [see 8015] on rattlesnake habits as consistent with natural selection: the rattle attracts rather than alarms its prey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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