RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Draft fragment of Descent. CUL-DAR60.1.144r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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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Old world & new world forms distinguishable from each other.) This I have in the opinion of Mr. St. George Mivart who from his laborious study of the whole order of Primates is well entitled to form a judgment.

But passing over this latter point in the genealogy of man, we may at least conclude that at some remote period the Catarhine group division became


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