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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1860.03.12. [Note on Natural Selection.] CUL-DAR48.A43. 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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March 12/60/

On principle of all parts varying in any way & N. S. [illeg] advantage of all useful, we can understand how it is that the most exuberant & wildest fancy could not invent more capricious & stranger forms than we see in nature - Look at many fishes - look at Homopterous insects - look at complemental males - look at ovum of Cephalopod - look at Carpenters larvæ growing on other eggs - look at Synapta look at development of young of oysters &c &c & thousands of other such cases.

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