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From:
Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 174: 40
Summary:

Suggests aesthetic sense in animals is merely secondary to sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Date:
26 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Misc. 14)
Summary:

Thanks for EJP’s suggestion that it is fascination rather than aesthetic appreciation that drives sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project