 I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.  Nature - Стр. 141редактор(ы): - 1873Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Adolph - 1864 - Страниц: 428
...earth, was still incomplete; therefore, God * "I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Darwin on theOriyin of Species, p. 518. That so few KINDS of plants and animals should have been created... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - Страниц: 510
...dark" for the first step. He modestly says, " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants 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... | |
 | John Watts - 1865 - Страниц: 206
...vegetable life are distinguished from each other. All existing animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
 | George Moore - 1866 - Страниц: 396
...faith is modified differently ; he says, ' I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.'* This is pure and simple faith with which reason has nothing to do, and is not sustained by an approach... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 510
...originated, but that all have. Mr. Darwin believes " that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * Analogy, indeed, would lead him " one step farther," namely, to the belief that " all animals and plants have... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 830
...modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four or five 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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1867 - Страниц: 884
...modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four or five 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... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 844
...ordinary" ? CRE.YTIOX OF FIRST GERMS. Mr. Darwin believes that animals have descended from at most only four or five 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... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 400
...from the common blue rock-pigeon, he concludes that all animals " have descended from at most only four or five 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... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 976
...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... | |
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