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DCP-LETT-5884

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 152
Summary:

Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].

Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5905

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Robert Wallace ed. 1899 : lxi
Summary:

Is obliged for note on right-handedness. The subject is a very curious one, but CD has never attended to it and can give no additional facts.

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