...exposition des considerations relatives a 1'histoire naturelle des animaux. Paris, 1809. f " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step 6 DARWINISM TESTED BY LANGUAGE. at the application of his hypothesis to man, remarking...

...with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. Supposing that we concede that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; " * and that even .; la rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended...

...with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. Supposing that we concede that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; " * and that even a la rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended...

...transformation of species are shown. And now we will leave the rostrum to Mr. Darwin : " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors." f Again : " I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived...

...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." . . . . " Therefore, on the principle of natural selection with divergence of character, it does not...

...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." . . . . " Therefore, on the principle of natural selection with divergence of character, it does not...

...these are his words, 1 "Origin of Species.". First Edition (Murray : 1859), chap. xiv. pp. 489, 490. "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...

...other influences of which we are probably ignorant. His own words are, " I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...from an equal or lesser number." " Analogy would lead me one step further—namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from one prototype."...

...language : "As the most eminent living naturalist conceives it not only possible, but probable, that all animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and all plants from an equal or lesser number, so I think that an examination of the history of human arts...

..."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." But speculatively he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step farther," he said, "namely, to...