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... larva or mag- got of a fly , namely , the Cecidomyia , producing asexually other larvæ , and these others , which finally are developed into mature males and females , propagating their kind in the ordinary manner by eggs . It has been ...
... larva or mag- got of a fly , namely , the Cecidomyia , producing asexually other larvæ , and these others , which finally are developed into mature males and females , propagating their kind in the ordinary manner by eggs . It has been ...
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... larvæ of most crustaceans , at corre- sponding stages of development , closely resemble each other , however different the adults may become ; and so it is with very many other animals . A trace of the law of embryonic resemblance ...
... larvæ of most crustaceans , at corre- sponding stages of development , closely resemble each other , however different the adults may become ; and so it is with very many other animals . A trace of the law of embryonic resemblance ...
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... larvæ of the most distinct species in the same class ; the embryo often retaining , while within the egg or womb , structures which are of no service to it , either at that or at a later period of life ; on the other hand , larvæ ...
... larvæ of the most distinct species in the same class ; the embryo often retaining , while within the egg or womb , structures which are of no service to it , either at that or at a later period of life ; on the other hand , larvæ ...
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... larvæ somewhat resemble tadpoles in shape , and have the power of swimming freely about . M. Kovalevsky has lately ob- served that the larvæ of Ascidians are related to the Ver- tebrata , in their manner of development , in the relative ...
... larvæ somewhat resemble tadpoles in shape , and have the power of swimming freely about . M. Kovalevsky has lately ob- served that the larvæ of Ascidians are related to the Ver- tebrata , in their manner of development , in the relative ...
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Page i - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 347 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Page 110 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Page 72 - The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.
Page 254 - It is incredible that all these facts should speak falsely. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation.
Page 44 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
Page 308 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not thé exclusive means of modification.