Origin of Species Variorum

→ perhaps 1859 1860

I speak after careful observation, perhaps 1861

— I speak after careful observation, — perhaps 1866 1869 1872

→ OMIT 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872

I may add, 1859

→ the full acknowledgment of the 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

works of high antiquity, in which the full 1872

→ in works of high antiquity. 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

is acknowledged. 1872

kind of selection is, in fact,

likewise

also

followed; for hardly any one is so careless as to

breed from

allow

his worst

animals.

animals

~~breed.~~

breed.

In regard to plants, there is another means of observing the accumulated effects of selection — namely, by comparing the diversity of flowers in the different varieties of the same species in the flower-garden; the diversity of leaves, pods, or tubers, or whatever part is valued, in the kitchen-garden, in comparison with the flowers of the same varieties; and the diversity of fruit of the same species in the orchard, in comparison with the leaves and flowers of the same set of varieties. See how different the leaves of the cabbage are, and how extremely alike the flowers; how unlike the flowers of the heartsease are, and how alike the leaves; how much the fruit of the different kinds of gooseberries differ in size, colour, shape, and hairiness, and yet the flowers present very slight differences. It is not that the varieties which differ largely in some one point do not differ at all in other points; this is hardly ever, →perhaps never, the case. The

law

laws

correlated

correlation

variation,

of growth,

the importance of which should never be overlooked, will ensure some differences; but, as a general rule,

cannot

be doubted

doubt

that the continued selection of slight variations, either in the leaves, the flowers, or the fruit, will produce races differing from each other chiefly in these characters.

It may be objected that the principle of selection has been reduced to methodical practice for scarcely more than three-quarters of a century; it has certainly been more attended to of late years, and many treatises have been published on the subject; and the

result,

result

→OMIT has been, in a corresponding degree, rapid and important. But it is very far from true that the principle is a modern discovery. I could give several references to →the full acknowledgment of the importance of the principle →in works of high antiquity. In rude and barbarous periods