RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1853.02. It is an old argument but seeing the wonderful metamorphoses. CUL-DAR205.5.136. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
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Feb /53/. It is an old argument, but seeing the possibility wonderful metamorphoses, whether in egg or womb, or as free animals, which all undergo, it is strange, that the possibility, I do not say probability, of a germ in course of ages undergoing equally great changes, has not modified our dislike of the view.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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