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Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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  • … beyond a few extracts, until shortly before his death, when William Ogle sent his translation, …
  • … & yet all the genera have 1/2 a dozen synonyms’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] …
  • … and explicit in the work of contemporary naturalists. In a letter to his friend Joseph Hooker, he …
  • … I believe, from trying to define the undefinable’ ( letter to  J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1856] ). …
  • … different forms of flowers on plants of the same species (1877) What Darwin discovered was that …
  • … a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] …
  • … of hybrids might be produced by natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). …
  • … to ‘say no more but leave the problem as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). …