RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1868-1870]. Draft of Descent, note (a), CUL-DAR85.B98r. (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 12.2025. 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-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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(a) text The preservation & augmentation of the similar, slight variations which appeared in distinct groups of birds in a state of nature, will have depended on such birds having had a enough not a taste for nearly similar ornamentation & novelty.)
& secondly on such variations have been preserved or selected owing to birds, though belonging to distinct groups, being a taste for nearly similar ornamentation
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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