RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Henrietta Emma Darwin. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent, folio 19. CUL-DAR60.1.146r. 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).
The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 226.
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features to a remarkable extent degree in the Negro tribes of Africa. The shape of the skull varies greatly *i (16A) in various races; & so it is with all every other characters. Now many naturalists knows very dearly bought experience, how rash it is to attempt to define as many species by the aid of inconstant characters. which he is forced to admit are
But the most weighty of all the arguments against treating the races of man as distinct species, is that they graduate into each other, independently in many cases, as far as we can judge, [text pasted over]. Man has been studied more
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