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

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

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

OMIT 1872

→ of many 1869

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

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

→ With birds it has often 1869 1872

It has 1866

→ OMIT 1869 1872

fruit have their 1866

↑ 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 other inhabitants; 1869

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

their co-inhabitants; 1872

→ created and specially 1869 1872

specially created and 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ 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

→ when used against an enemy often causing 1869

causing 1859 1860 1861 1866

when used against an enemy, causing 1872

→ and being then 1859 1869 1872

with the great majority 1860 1861 1866

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

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

→the most brilliant colours and other ornaments to the males, but sometimes to both sexes →of many birds, butterflies, and

~~a few~~

a few

other animals. →With birds it has often rendered the

voices

voice

many

the

male

birds

....

musical to

their

the

females,

female,

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 →OMIT seeds disseminated by birds. ↑

And

....

lastly,

Lastly,

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

As natural selection acts by competition, it

adapts

renders

→the inhabitants of each country

only

perfect only

in relation to →the other inhabitants; so that we need feel no surprise at the

inhabitants

species

of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been →created and specially 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 the sting of the

bee,

bee

→when used against an enemy often causing the

bee's

bees

own death; at drones being produced in such

vast

great

numbers for one single act, →and being then slaughtered by their sterile sisters; at the astonishing waste of pollen by our fir-trees; at the instinctive hatred of the

queen-bee

queen bee

for her own fertile