RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Perrier, L'Origine de l'Homme d'après Darwin, 1873. CUL-DAR89.41. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., p. 210. n4: "M. Perrier advances this case ('Revue Scientifique,' Feb. 1, 1873, p. 865) as one fatal to the belief in sexual selection, inasmuch as he supposes that I attribute all the differences between the sexes to sexual selection. This distinguished naturalist, therefore, like so many other Frenchmen, has not taken the trouble to understand even the first principles of sexual selection. An English naturalist insists that the claspers of certain male animals could not have been developed through the choice of the female! Had I not met with this remark, I should not have thought it possible for any one to have read this chapter and to have imagined that I maintain that the choice of the female had anything to do with the development of the prehensile organs in the male."
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Perrier. Revue Scientifique p. 860 on Helminths having sense to attract sexes together. Good.
On annelids becoming less brilliant after pairing.
+ do on Insects - curious about Bees how little he understands sexual selection - like many others of his countrymen
case of male like workers.
Hairy caterpillars brilliant – Lepidoptera
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