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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 48: A80–1
Summary:

Suggests CD use the common origin of the French "chef" and the English "head" or "évêque" and "bishop" to illustrate the parallels between extinction and transitional forms in language and palaeontology [see Natural selection, p. 384].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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