RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1857]. Draft of Natural selection, chapter 4 'Wide ranging, common and much diffused species tend most to vary'. CUL-DAR15.1.A1-A50. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: First transcribed by R. C. Stauffer in Natural selection, F1583. Adapted with some corrections and omissions transcribed to correspond with the manuscript by John van Wyhe 3.2026. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press, the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
The transcription from R. C. Stauffer's book has been placed alongside the images with minor additions and corrections. There are a few discrepancies between the edited text and the original manuscript. For more detail about Darwin's chapter, see of course Stauffer, Natural selection. To compare this document with Origin of species, see the 'Collation between the Origin and Natural Selection' by Stan Rachootin and Sydney Smith.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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