 ... great departure from the typical form — such as the absence of limbs — without some of the other organs in the body being so far modified as of themselves to indicate, on the supposition of descent with modification, that the animal or plant must...  The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution - Page 38by George John Romanes - 1882 - 88 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1879 - 614 pages
...supposition of descent with modification, that the animal or plant must have been subject to the moditying influences for a long series of generations. And this combined testimony of a number of organs in the game oi-ganism is what the theory of the descent would lead us to expect, while the rival tneory of... | |
 | 1882 - 916 pages
...animal or plant must have been subject to the modifying influences for a long series of generations. Now this combined testimony of a number of organs in the...same organism should tend to keep it company by doing likewise.* I will now briefly touch on another branch of the argument from morphology — the argument... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1882 - 784 pages
...descent with modification, that the animal or plant must have been subject to the modifying influences of a long series of generations. And this combined testimony...rival theory of design can offer no explanation of the facfl that when one organ shows a conspicuous departure from the supposed ideal type, some of the other... | |
 | George John Romanes - Evolution - 1892 - 504 pages
...modification, that the animal or plant must have been subject to the modifying influences for an enormously long series of generations. And this combined testimony...same organism should tend to keep it company by doing likewise. As an illustration both of this and of other points which have been mentioned, I may draw... | |
 | 1882
...descent with modification, that the animal or plant must have been subject to the modifying influences of a long series of generations. And this combined testimony...same organism should tend to keep it company by doing likewise." In the third chapter we find, very briefly, the argument from geology, and in the fourth... | |
 | England - 1881 - 826 pages
...animal or plant must have been subject to the modifying influences for a long series of generations. Now this combined testimony of a number of organs in the...same organism should tend to keep it company by doing likewise. 1 now briefly touch on another branch of the argument from Morphology — the argument from... | |
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