RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent, folio 15. CUL-DAR60.2.77r. 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 this draft corresponds to Descent 2: 19.
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deposited, & when this process requires lasts for several days, as is said to be the case with the salmon* (29), the female is attended all the time by the male. so that with most fishes, After After the ova are deposited they are left as well as the young when hatched in most cases left in most cases unprotected by
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either parent. So that both sexes during as far as oviposition is concerned are equally exposed to equal danger, & both are equally important for rearing their young offspring; consequently the destruction or preservation of the [text excised] brightly coloured individuals of [text excised] liable to be [text excised] preserved.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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