RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. In Ch on Classification show how far my theory goes. CUL-DAR205.5.160. 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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In Ch on Classification show how far my theory goes.
Beyond classes we can say only that germinal vesicle — the cellular structure, chemical composition, to a large extent well evinced in action of poisons laws of growth nutrition & generation, would indicate by analogy that all living beings descended from not from 4 or 5 animal types & as many or fewer vegetable types, but from one single created prototype. protoplasm.—
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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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