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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 March 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 109
Summary:
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 105
Summary:
Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.
Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
