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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[11 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 236
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Comments on natural selection. Sometimes he can persuade himself that it is of quite subordinate importance, but so many structures have been explained by it that he can also persuade himself that every structure developed through it. Cites H. G. Bronn’s list [of structures not explicable by natural selection].