...beings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhebitants of that continent. These facts. as will be seen in...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called. (Darwin, 1872, p. 27) Acknowledgments...

...in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent....volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On...

...introduced his subject in On the Origin of Species in the same terms: "the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers."38 Like Darwin, Morgan was also concerned with how to understand creation, Divine and...

...certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has...

...by announcing his detectivelike determination "to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers." He was alluding to John Herschel's expression of wonder in a letter to Charles Lyell, "That mystery...

...certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species— that mystery of mysteries, as it has been...

...Humboldt in the introduction to the Origin of Species, where the question of origins is described as 'that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers' (65). The editors of Darwin's early notebooks have indicated, however, on the strength of Darwin's...

...certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has...

...certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species." Today, as in Darwin's time, the distribution...

...certain facts in the distribution of inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries" (1859). The...