Chapter VI: Difficulties on Theory
Discusses the eye: 'To suppose that the eye... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.'
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From On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Darwin candidly addresses problems with his theory, most famously the apparent impossibility of natural selection producing complex organs like the eye.
Chapter VI, on intermediates
Addresses the absence of transitional forms and gradations of complex instincts.
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