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CHAPTER II.. Variation Under Nature.

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection · Charles Darwin — chapter 2 of 30 · ~55 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 each country vary more frequently 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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