From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius March
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
March 1883 , p. 23
Summary:
His opinion of the couvade.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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His opinion of the couvade.
Wonders if it is possible that the couvade had its origin in an early habit of the male sex to take part in the nourishment of the offspring.