The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1856.07.17. My view of the forms of being being infinitely more related to each other, explains in wide-spreading animals or shells. CUL-DAR205.9.315. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1

NOTE: The brown crayon number '22' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Palaeontology: extinction.

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].

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My view of the forms of being being infinitely more related to each other, explains in wide-spreading animals or shells (& fishes though we have little evidence) & plants (also little evidence) of corresponding changes all over world - Not so in Mammals & Bears most importantly on Extinction

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Under very same climate & at very same spot, the struggle for existence has & must have gone on, generally without any adaptation to climate - Will it be said that when forms adapted to climate the struggle is over

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)