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CHAPTER II.. Variation Under Nature.

On the Origin of Species · Charles Darwin — chapter 2 of 30 · ~56 words · public domain

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VARIATION UNDER NATURE.

Variability--Individual differences--Doubtful species--Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary most--Species of the larger genera in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera--Many of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges

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