RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Embryology shows there has been advance. CUL-DAR48.A82. 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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Embryology shows there has been advance

Nat. Selec tends to speciation & advance - so in intellect

But I cannot in imagination follow out steps of advance for cell.

Huxley homologies of Vertebrata & Articulata

All do plant for germinal cell or vesicle

[in margin:] Difficulties I must enlarge on these


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