From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Mar 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 214
Summary:
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project