 | 1863 - 718 Seiten
...that all the forms of organic life may have sprung from a few individuals at most. He says : I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. . . . I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the... | |
 | 1863 - 924 Seiten
...his work on the Origin of Species. The grand conclusions at which the latter writer arrives are, " that animals have descended from, at most, only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." " I should infer," says he, " from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived... | |
 | 1863 - 510 Seiten
...created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable. ... I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. . . . Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the earth have descended from some one... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1863 - 338 Seiten
...of time, the world swarmed with living creatures I believe that animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me a step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 Seiten
...will now let Mr. Darwin speak for himself : — " I belieee t that animals have descended from at most four or five 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. 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... | |
 | Edward Dillon Mapother - 1864 - 578 Seiten
...adapted each species to the precise position it fills in the universe. Again he says : " 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... | |
 | Georges Pouchet - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...cette lutte (1) Darwin, On the Oriijin of Specîes, London, 1861, p. 518 : « I believe that animais have descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...an equal or lesser number. — Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely to the belief that ail animais and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | William Adolph - 1864 - 428 Seiten
...paradise, of the loveliest spot of the whole earth, was still incomplete; therefore, God * "I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Darwin on theOriyin of Species, p. 518. That so few KINDS of plants and animals should have been created... | |
 | Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club - 1860 - 414 Seiten
...plainly show that an early progenitor has the organ in a fully developed state." " I believe," says he, "that animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or a lesser number." "Analogy would lead me one step further — viz., to the belief that all animals... | |
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I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. 
