The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871] & 1877.10.30-11.12. Passiflora gracilis / Draft of Descent 1: 248. CUL-DAR209.11.85. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. 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-DAR209.11 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). Draft in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 248.

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Study (too cold)

Passiflora Bent tendril by bring stem almost vertically down— shaken, but not touched

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[The top the leaf is excised and is now in CUL-DAR209.14.76.]

preserved & augmented through natural selection during a long series of generations. ~~or the survival of the fittest.~~ But here we are once met with the objection that beneficial variations alone can be this preserved; & as far as we are enabled to judge (although always liable to err on this head) not one of the external differences between the races of man are of any direct or special service to him.

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