RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1849.08. Ch 6 / If time was enormous compared with space. CUL-DAR47.4. 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'.
[4]
Aug/ 49/
5 (Ch. 6)
If time was enormous compared with space, then there wd be little chance of tracing varieties between species — suppose to make species a certain some change of conditions & isolation were necessary in time these might occur indefinitely often, where at present in species, they might occur but rarely.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 28 August, 2023