| 1860 - 566 Seiten
...affinities and relationships of animal groups obtained by subsequent induction, says : ' I believe that animals have descended ' from at most only four or five progenitors,' [evidently meaning, or answering to, the type-forms of the four or five ' sub-kingdoms' in modern zoology],... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 Seiten
...with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have desconded from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
| 1861 - 716 Seiten
...modification to members of the same class. Then he launches out still more boldly and says : " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." (Page 419.) He seems inclined to stop again at this point, but a little thought soon... | |
| 1860 - 1172 Seiten
...Notices of Books. 517 from the facts of animal and vegetable life warrants the conclusion, that Ml living animals "have descended from, at most, only four or...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 Seiten
...warrants the conclusion, that all living animals " have descended from, at most, only four or live progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
| 1875 - 828 Seiten
...operation of natural causes. In his work on the " Origin of Species" he snys " I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page he goes much further : " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1316 Seiten
...things ensures the propagation of individuals in whom this divergence is maintained : this * " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." — Origin of Species, p. 484. Mr Darwin goes on to say: " Analogy would lead one step further, namely,... | |
| 1860 - 800 Seiten
...descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class." Furthermore, " I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step in the same direction, while he protests that... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1860 - 638 Seiten
...that the theory of descent, with modification, embraces all the members of the same class. He believes that animals have descended from at most only four...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead him one step further ; namely, to the belief that, in the beginning, there arose some single, primitive,... | |
| 1860 - 880 Seiten
...study for twenty years, and whose opinions are of weight, and worthy of consideration : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...from an equal or lesser number Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
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