RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.03.07. Falconer strong that Purbeck fossil have not teeth like archynoid. CUL-DAR205.9.327. 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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Falconer strong that Purbeck fossil have not teeth like archynoid or most general: but then Owen thinks all marsupials & by restricting Owen law, this wd not be effected. As by further modification of species embryo at present wd be less changed, then adults, embryo now, however different from mature; wd be still more like each other than they wd be hereafter. But only in same line of descent.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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