 | 1882 - 590 lehte
...other influences of which we are probably ignorant. His own words are, " I believe that animals are 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 are descended... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1882 - 616 lehte
...language : "As the most eminent living naturalist conceives it not only possible, but probable, that all animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and all plants from an equal or lesser number, so I think that an examination of the history of human arts... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 lehte
...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... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 lehte
...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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1912 - 824 lehte
...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 - 484 lehte
...modification through natural selection from a few vastly remote progenitors. ' I believe,' says Mr. Darwin, ' that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead us one step further — namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 2009 - 224 lehte
...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...progenitors, 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... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - 1992 - 298 lehte
...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:... | |
 | David Millard Locke - 1992 - 268 lehte
...difficult to answer" (p. 751). Nevertheless, after some intervening argument, he tries: "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 have descended from at most only four or five progenitors,... | |
 | Neil De Marchi - 1993 - 392 lehte
...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. 
