RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. the case of a selected variety a small isolated island. CUL-DAR48.B27ar. 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. RN2
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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We have taken the case of a selected variety a small isolated island; but if the same process of selection were to go on, in a favourable spot, but open to the inroads of the parent-forms; these would be crossing not only on the actual spot in question, but all round.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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