RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Is it Male or Female which departs from Type? CUL-DAR205.6.52. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR205.6 contains notes on embryology [pigeons].


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Is it Male or Female which departs from Type? It shd be the struggling one, Hard to say which, or locomotive one, when one more. But in insects it is female, because the change is effected by mere abortion.


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