...of the organic kingdoms is composed of the modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * But he is inclined to go further, and it does not seem to him incredible "that from some such low...

...Darwin, ' that the theory of descent by gradation embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or even lesser number.' He is, indeed, disposed to go further than this, and to derive all organised beings...

...afraid to say extraordinary instead of " ordinary" ? CRE.YTIOX OF FIRST GERMS. Mr. Darwin believes that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. As to the first origin of these, he considers the question to be at present quite beyond the scope...

...And this is called science ! Mr. Darwin states his theory in two forms on the same page. " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organized beings which...

...that the transmutation doctrine must involve man ; eg, in the sweeping admission that all existing animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors ; and that analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on...

...specie's in the scientific meaning of the term, but also genera and families and orders ; so that all " animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. I shall here omit all notice of plants, for the truth of the hypothesis can be tested as surely and...

...may have descended through different lines from the common blue rock-pigeon, he concludes that all animals " have descended from at most only four or...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." He says, moreover, " Analogy would lead me a step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and...

...showing, merely a fanciful hypothesis. He accounts for the origin of creation as follows : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants, from an equal ur less number. Therefore I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which...

...— On the ORIGIN of Species. But they are fully expressed in the following words : — ' 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 [plants and animals] which have...

...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...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Of the latter he speaks with more reserve. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the...