RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 11.1869. The Farnborough Rat. CUL-DAR86.A76. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2025. 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).
Darwin was collecting information on the proportion of males to females born in different types of living things for his chapters on sexual selection in Descent. On rats, see Descent 1: 305.
A76
Nov. 9 — 1869
The Farnborough Rat is convinced that ♀ Rat in excess —!!!
Says they are polygamous
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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