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... given to be opened with care and deciphered with reverence , by the help of comparison with the living inhabitants of the Land and Sea . OXFORD , Oct. 1860 . CONTENTS . Essential Conditions of Life Influence of Climate on viii PREFACE .
... given to be opened with care and deciphered with reverence , by the help of comparison with the living inhabitants of the Land and Sea . OXFORD , Oct. 1860 . CONTENTS . Essential Conditions of Life Influence of Climate on viii PREFACE .
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... given species is the final result of many long periods of general effort to extend , and of some particular influences to restrain , its diffusion . Remarkable examples are recorded by botanists of plants having sprung up unexpectedly ...
... given species is the final result of many long periods of general effort to extend , and of some particular influences to restrain , its diffusion . Remarkable examples are recorded by botanists of plants having sprung up unexpectedly ...
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... given by mechanicians to ships constructed for swift motion , and suggests to every observer the idea of the solid of least resistance in water . The same peculiarities appear in a different manner in the very different group of diving ...
... given by mechanicians to ships constructed for swift motion , and suggests to every observer the idea of the solid of least resistance in water . The same peculiarities appear in a different manner in the very different group of diving ...
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... given have predicted by any theory the arrangement which is found to be so com- plete . Into the other wonders of the feather , its hollow quill basis , its implantation , the relation of the directions of its axis and plane to the axes ...
... given have predicted by any theory the arrangement which is found to be so com- plete . Into the other wonders of the feather , its hollow quill basis , its implantation , the relation of the directions of its axis and plane to the axes ...
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... given of species and genera still living traced backward in time , we may in like manner select species and genera living in the older strata , and trace them up- ward in the rocks , or forward in time , as in the following examples ...
... given of species and genera still living traced backward in time , we may in like manner select species and genera living in the older strata , and trace them up- ward in the rocks , or forward in time , as in the following examples ...
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Page 202 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
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Page 203 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
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Page 202 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 201 - I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification.
Page 201 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 203 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Page 186 - The intermixture of distinct species is guarded against by the aversion of the individuals composing them to sexual union, or by the sterility of the mule offspring. It does not appear that true hybrid races have ever been perpetuated for several generations, even by the assistance of man; for the cases usually cited relate to the crossing of mules with individuals of pure species, and not to the intermixture of hybrid with hybrid.