RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Draft of Descent vol. 1, pp. 175-176. CUL-DAR54.66r. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2025. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).
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Virtues from both their parents.)
(It was estbalished from an enormous body of statistics taken during 1853 that the unmarried men throughout France, between the ages of twenty and eighty, die in much larger proportion than the married: for instance out every 1000 unmarried men, between the ages of twenty and thirty, 11.3 annual died, whilst of the married men only 6.5 died *(20).
A similar law was proved during the years 1863 * 1864 to hold good, with the entire population
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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