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From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 56/1–15
Summary:

MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 211–13
Summary:

Examples of animals that dwell in dark places, some of which are blind, some not. Asks: where causes are the same, why is not the effect? Does not think disuse is the answer, but arrested development.

Comments also on the absence of a ligament in four mammals and asks how natural selection accounts for this.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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