 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.  Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession - Стр. 193авторы: John Phillips - 1860 - Страниц: 224Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1861 - Страниц: 716
...with modification to members of the same class. Then he launches out still more boldly and says : " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." (Page 419.) He seems inclined to stop again at this point, but a little thought soon... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1861 - Страниц: 68
...descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class." Furthermore, "I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step in the same direction, while he protests that... | |
 | 1861 - Страниц: 842
...thus be formed, as superior to one ot gl»ss as the works of the Creator are to those of man f" " 1 believe that animals have descended from at most only...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or letser number. Analogy would lead me one step' further. — I should infer frcm analogy that probubly... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 718
...variable, and that all the forms of organic life may have sprung from a few individuals at most. He says : I believe that animals have descended from at most...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. . . . I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 924
...his work on the Origin of Species. The grand conclusions at which the latter writer arrives are, " that animals have descended from, at most, only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." " I should infer," says he, " from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 510
...created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable. ... I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. . . . Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the earth have descended from some one... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1863 - Страниц: 338
...of time, the world swarmed with living creatures I believe that animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me a step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
 | Georges Pouchet - 1864 - Страниц: 260
...cette lutte (1) Darwin, On the Oriijin of Specîes, London, 1861, p. 518 : « I believe that animais have descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...lesser number. — Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely to the belief that ail animais and plants have descended from some one prototype. »... | |
 | William Adolph - 1864 - Страниц: 428
...happiness of paradise, of the loveliest spot of the whole earth, was still incomplete; therefore, God * "I believe that animals have descended from at most...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... | |
 | Henri Charles Georges Pouchet - 1864 - Страниц: 188
...order to become in time a specific charac* Darwin On the Origin of Species, p. 518, London, 1861. " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
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