RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. A species may have superabundance of food & yet. CUL-DAR45.64. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR45 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 4 'Variation under nature'.


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A species may have superabundance of food & so be flourishing & yet its members & range be checked by enemies — yet this wd vary according to this law.— Yet there cd be exceptions, & at least we may conclude that those species which are very numerous have abundance of food.—

Causes of Variation in State of Nature wherever I discuss Agrarians not varying


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