RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1872.03.07. Neuter Insects (Natural Selection). CUL-DAR47.25. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
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Neuter Insects (Natural Selection)
You can select caterpillars & cocoon & alter characters, & these forms are sterile, & caterpillars differ more from parents than do neuter ants from their parents—The caterpillar has very little structures in common with neuter & is only botanically the same individual.— Technically all the [illeg] ants case these are the same individuals—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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