RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The open suturein the skull of human infants, CUL-DAR48.A28. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR48 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 8 'Transitions of Organs'. Notes on bees' cells for origin of species theory.
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The open suturein the skull of human infants in mammals? are often adduced as an example of adaptation, which allow the bones to overlap close? overlap? during birth so as to facilitate birth, & are often advanced, as a case of adaptation; but as the [few words illeg] open in skull of the Bird? or young Reptile? which has not to come only out of an egg, we see that this structure must be due to some quite independent cause, being present has only been taken advantage of in the birth of mammals?
Owen on Nature of Limbs answers this
Huxley 2 Ch. 8. p. 83. M.S.
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