RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855.08. Those who believe in distinct creations would argue. CUL-DAR205.5.156. 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.
The brown crayon number '11' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Divergence.
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Aug./55/ Those who believe in distinct creations, would argue with respect to division in groups, that if A is made adapted to certain conditions, under slightly different, but analogous conditions, as on mountain summit, another species B wd have to be created, & so on. And if species were all representative species this wd hold good, at least primâ facie: but habits &c of species of same genus are often so very different, that this will hardly suffice, still less in worst cases will it hold with genera; why shd otter, dog, cat belong to same Family? because all carnivorous. Why Bat, seal & Hare belong to same. Why shd the water Ranunculus be a Ranunculus at all, it meets with no conditions analogous to the land Ranunculus. Why cuscuta a convolvulus.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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