Origin of Species Variorum

→ understand 1866 1869

to a certain extent understand 1872

→ such harmonious beauty generally prevails 1866 1869

there is so much beauty 1872

→ nature. 1866 1869

nature: for this may be largely attributed to the agency of selection. 1872

→ there are exceptions 1866 1869

beauty, 1872

→ beauty, no one will doubt 1866 1869

it, is not universal, must be admitted by every one 1872

→ generally to the males alone but sometimes to both sexes, 1866

the most brilliant colours and other ornaments to the males, but sometimes to both sexes 1869

OMIT 1872

→ the most brilliant and beautiful colours, as well as other ornaments, to our 1866

of many 1869

the most brilliant colours, elegant patterns, and other ornaments to the males, and sometimes to both sexes of many 1872

→ It has 1866

With birds it has often 1869 1872

→ fruit have their 1866

OMIT 1869 1872

↑ 1 blocks not present in 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869; present in 1872

How it comes that certain colours, sounds, and forms should give pleasure to man and the lower animals,— that is, how the sense of beauty in its simplest form was first acquired,— we do not know any more than how certain odours and flavours were first rendered agreeable.

→ the 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

and improves the 1872

→ the degree of perfection of their associates; 1859 1860 1861 1866

the other inhabitants; 1869

their co-inhabitants; 1872

→ specially created and 1859 1860 1861 1866

created and specially 1869 1872

→ and if some 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

as in the case even 1872

→ be 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

human eye; or if some of them be 1872

and so

in endless other cases. But on the view of each species constantly trying to increase in number, with natural selection always ready to adapt the slowly varying descendants of each to any unoccupied or

ill-occu- pied

ill-occupied

place in nature, these facts cease to be strange, or

~~perhaps~~

perhaps

might even have been anticipated.

We can →understand how it is that →such harmonious beauty generally prevails throughout →nature. That →there are exceptions according to our

sense

ideas

of →beauty, no one will doubt who will look at some

~~of the~~

of the

venomous snakes, at some

fishes,

fish,

and at certain hideous bats with a distorted resemblance to the human face. Sexual selection has

given

given,

→generally to the males alone but sometimes to both sexes, →the most brilliant and beautiful colours, as well as other ornaments, to our birds, butterflies, and

~~a few~~

a few

other animals. →It has rendered the

voice

voices

the

many

male

~~birds~~

birds

musical to

the

their

female,

females,

as well as to our ears. Flowers and fruit have been rendered conspicuous by

brilliant

gaudy

colours in contrast with the green foliage, in order that the flowers

may

might

be easily seen, visited, and fertilised by insects, and the →fruit have their seeds disseminated by birds. ↑

~~And~~

And

Lastly,

lastly,

some living objects have become beautiful through mere symmetry of growth.

As natural selection acts by competition, it

renders

adapts

→the inhabitants of each country

perfect only

only

in relation to →the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the

species

inhabitants

of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been →specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

Nor

ought we to marvel if all the contrivances in nature be not, as far as we can judge, absolutely

perfect,

perfect;

→and if some of

the

them

→be abhorrent to our ideas of fitness. We need not marvel at