Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 384 pages |
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... distinct species may have had a common antitype , and that each of these may again have become the antitypes from which other closely allied species were created . The effect of this would be , that so long as each species has had but ...
... distinct species may have had a common antitype , and that each of these may again have become the antitypes from which other closely allied species were created . The effect of this would be , that so long as each species has had but ...
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... distinct organs , leading us on to two distinct series of species , which at length differ so much from each other as to form distinct genera or families . These are the parallel series or representative groups of naturalists , and they ...
... distinct organs , leading us on to two distinct series of species , which at length differ so much from each other as to form distinct genera or families . These are the parallel series or representative groups of naturalists , and they ...
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... distinct- ness of species is , that varieties produced in a state of domesticity are more or less unstable , and often have a tendency , if left to themselves , to return to the normal form of the parent species ; and this insta- bility ...
... distinct- ness of species is , that varieties produced in a state of domesticity are more or less unstable , and often have a tendency , if left to themselves , to return to the normal form of the parent species ; and this insta- bility ...
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... among boughs and shrubs , or lie coiled up on the dense masses of foliage . These are of many distinct groups , and comprise both venomous and harmless genera ; but almost all of them are of 54 MIMICRY , AND OTHER PROTECTIVE.
... among boughs and shrubs , or lie coiled up on the dense masses of foliage . These are of many distinct groups , and comprise both venomous and harmless genera ; but almost all of them are of 54 MIMICRY , AND OTHER PROTECTIVE.
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... distinct species of tree , the bark of which it resembles with equal accuracy . Both these insects are abundant , and we may fairly conclude that the protection they derive from this strange concealment is at least one of the causes ...
... distinct species of tree , the bark of which it resembles with equal accuracy . Both these insects are abundant , and we may fairly conclude that the protection they derive from this strange concealment is at least one of the causes ...
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