 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1994 - Страниц: 228
...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... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - Страниц: 1712
...with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. Supposing that we concede that "animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors";* and that even a la rigucur "all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from... | |
 | David Amigoni - 1995 - Страниц: 228
...edition, the issue is approached with a caution which verges on indecision and contradiction: the belief that 'animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number', is swiftly but hesitantly modified to allow the inference 'from analogy' that 'probably all the organic... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - Страниц: 486
...up very wide intervals between existing orders. Organs in a rudimentary condition plainly show dial an early progenitor had the organ in a fully developed...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.... | |
 | Francis H. Buzzacott - 1996 - Страниц: 220
...modification, embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom, hence, I believe, that all life is descended from at most only four or five" progenitors and plants from an equal or lesser number." — Darwin, "Origin of Species," Page 182. "Again, with all organic beings, except some of the earliest... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - Страниц: 424
...separately created by Divine edict; nature, for Darwin, was a continuum, which made possible the speculation that 'animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number', or even — though he hedged his bets here — that 'probably all the organic beings which have ever... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - Страниц: 502
...ignore the whole subject of the first appearance of species in what they consider reverent silence. It may be asked how far I extend the doctrine of the...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.... | |
 | Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - 1999 - Страниц: 348
...less than ten parent forms" (Darwin 1909, p. 252). In the Origin, Darwin advanced the same conviction that "animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." This hypothesis, he maintained, was sufficient for his general theory. He did venture, however, that... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 2001 - Страниц: 554
...Darwin says * : — " I believe that animals have * Origin of Species, 6th edit. 1872, pp. 424 and 429. descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...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.... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 2002 - Страниц: 626
...descendants of probably less than ten parent forms."44 In the Origin, Darwin advanced this same conviction that "animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." This hypothesis, he maintained, was sufficient for his general theory. He did venture, however, that... | |
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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.... 
