Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3 / Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility

by George John Romanes

[161] Descent of Man, pp. 159-60.

[162] Descent of Man, p. 176.

[163] The passage to which these remarks apply is likewise quoted, in the same connexion as above, in my paper on Physiological Selection. In criticising that paper in Nature (vol. xxxix. p. 127), Mr. Thiselton Dyer says of my interpretation of this passage, "the obvious drift of this does not relate to specific differences, but to those which are characteristic of family." But in making this remark Mr. Dyer could not have read the passage with sufficient care to note the points which I have now explained.

[164] Origin of Species, p. 171.

[165] Ibid. p. 421.

[166] Origin of Species, pp. 372-373.

[167] Mr. Thiselton Dyer in Nature, loc. cit.

[168] Origin of Species, p. 171.

[169] Ibid. p. 175.

[170] Variation, &c., vol. ii. p. 260.