RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Wallace's view requires sexual limitation just as much as mine. CUL-DAR84.2.216. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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Wallace's view requires sexual limitation just as much as mine —only more complex. Beauty is checked in female, & the arrested beauty is transmitted to female alone —
surely it is simpler to suppose that the initial variations followed the law of exact limitation.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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