 The similar framework of bones in the hand of a man, wing of a bat, fin of the porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at once explain...  The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 43by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Books - 1914 - 552 pages
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, and innumerable other such facts, at once...descent with slow and slight successive modifications. — p. 479. Such assumptions as these, we once more repeat, are most dishonourable and injurious to... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1923 - 346 pages
...porpoise, and leg of a horse, the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, and innumerable other such facts, at once...descent with slow and slight successive modifications." I do not mean to go through your correspondent's letter, otherwise " I could hardly reprehend in sufficiently... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...natural selection, with its contingencies of extinction and divergence of character " (p. 478). Again: " Innumerable other such facts at once explain themselves...descent with slow and slight successive modifications " (p-479> Again: " Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...natural selection, with its contingencies of extinction and divergence of character " (p. 478). Again: " Innumerable other such facts at once explain themselves...descent with slow and slight successive modifications " (P- 479> Again: " Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties... | |
 | Ursula Lord - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 382 pages
...same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, - and innumerable other facts, at once explain themselves on the theory of...descent with slow and slight successive modifications ... On the principle of successive variations not always supervening at an early age, and being inherited... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 pages
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...similarity of pattern in the wing and leg of a bat, though used for such different purpose, — in the jaws and legs of a crab, — in the petals, stamens,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...similarity of pattern in the wing and leg of a bat, though used for such different purpose, — in the jaws and legs of a crab, — in the petals, stamens,... | |
 | Philip A. Rolnick - Religion - 2007 - 281 pages
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...theory of descent with slow and slight successive modifications.3 Darwin believed that all animals (and similarly, plants) were descended from at most... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 pages
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...similarity of pattern in the wing and leg of a bat, though used for such different purposes, — in the jaws and legs of a crab, — in the petals, stamens,... | |
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