 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - Страниц: 754
...it to be verified by others as he thought he had verified it to himself. "I cannot doubt," he said, "that the theory of descent, with modification, embraces...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." But speculatively he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step farther," he said, "namely, to... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - Страниц: 786
...it to be verified by others as he thought he had verified it to himself. " I cannot doubt," he said, "that the theory of descent, with modification, embraces...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." But speculative!}1 he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step f;irther," he said, "namely, to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1883 - Страниц: 494
...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,...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead jne one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants am descended from some one... | |
 | Liverpool Geological Association - 1883 - Страниц: 182
...them as permitting the derivation of species from species ; and affirms that in his belief animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. He adds " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1912 - Страниц: 824
...Darwin's hypothesis by referring to his own remarks on the subject. He states that in his opinion " animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. This would lead us one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 484
...modification through natural selection from a few vastly remote progenitors. ' I believe,' says Mr. Darwin, ' that animals have descended from at most only four...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead us one step further — namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some... | |
 | David Millard Locke - 1992 - Страниц: 268
...the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals have descended from at most...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." But one need not stop here: "Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 2009 - Страниц: 224
...indicates the non-neo-Darwinian character of his theory. He reiterated his conviction in the Origin that "animals have descended from at most only four...and plants from an equal or lesser number." Analogy, he said, yet led him to think that "probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - 1992 - Страниц: 298
...modification embraces all the mcmbcrsof 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 (Darwin, 1899:469). And somewhat later, in defending his theory as not entirely beyond Divine intervention:... | |
 | Neil De Marchi - 1993 - Страниц: 392
...Origin, in Darwin's presentation of the theory of common descent. He first concluded that all animals had "descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." This led him to remark, "Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals... | |
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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 prototype.... 
