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... species , as always maintained in this work . The belief in the separate creation of species generally held by naturalists , until a recent period . AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF OPINION ON THE. xii ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS .
... species , as always maintained in this work . The belief in the separate creation of species generally held by naturalists , until a recent period . AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF OPINION ON THE. xii ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS .
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... naturalists , on the other hand , have believed that species undergo modification , and that the existing forms of ... naturalist first * Aristotle , in his Physicæ Auscultationes ' ( lib . 2 , cap . 8 , s . 2 ) , after remarking that ...
... naturalists , on the other hand , have believed that species undergo modification , and that the existing forms of ... naturalist first * Aristotle , in his Physicæ Auscultationes ' ( lib . 2 , cap . 8 , s . 2 ) , after remarking that ...
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... naturalists will be how , for instance , cattle got their horns , and not for what they are used . It is rather a singular instance of the manner in which similar views arise at about the same time , that Goethe in Germany , Dr. Darwin ...
... naturalists will be how , for instance , cattle got their horns , and not for what they are used . It is rather a singular instance of the manner in which similar views arise at about the same time , that Goethe in Germany , Dr. Darwin ...
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... naturalists , some of them personally unknown to me . I cannot , however , let this opportunity pass without expressing my deep obligations to Dr. Hooker , who , for . the last fifteen years , has aided me in every possible way by his ...
... naturalists , some of them personally unknown to me . I cannot , however , let this opportunity pass without expressing my deep obligations to Dr. Hooker , who , for . the last fifteen years , has aided me in every possible way by his ...
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... naturalists . From these considerations , I shall devote the first chapter of this Abstract to Variation under Domestication . We shall thus see that a large amount of hereditary modification is at least pos- sible ; and , what is ...
... naturalists . From these considerations , I shall devote the first chapter of this Abstract to Variation under Domestication . We shall thus see that a large amount of hereditary modification is at least pos- sible ; and , what is ...
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