 | Ernst Haeckel - Evolution - 1876 - 458 pages
...special questions of the Theory of Descent ; at the conclusion he only expresses his conjecture " that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." But as these few aboriginal forms still show traces of relationship, and as the animal... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1877 - 696 pages
...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 .; la rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1877 - 688 pages
...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 rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Anthropology - 1882 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | Roscoe Lorenzo Eames - Shorthand - 1883 - 256 pages
...the theory of descent by modification embraces all the members of the same class, and I believe all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or a lesser number." And then here is the conclusion. " Probably all the organic beings which have ever... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 pages
...school holding i " Physical Basis of Mind." pp. 101. 109, 134, 125. \ that (to use Mr. Darwin's words) " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number," — Lewes pleads hard for a deeper and more thorough analysis of the facts than either... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - Religion - 1885 - 600 pages
...descendants of this first organism, — the less extreme school holding that (to use Mr. Darwin's words) " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number," — Lewes pleads hard for a deeper and more thorough analysis of the facts than either... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - Evolution - 1886 - 494 pages
...he thinks, have been evolved from four or five primordial forms. " I believe," he says, " that all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal number." Again: " Possibly all the original beings which have ever lived on the earth are descended... | |
 | 1910 - 844 pages
...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, and plants from an equal or less number." Monophyletic evolution, even in the sense "that all the organic beings which have ever... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 898 pages
...say, anything about the ultimate origin of things. Mr. Darwin says : " I believe that all animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number, f. . . All the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth may be descended from... | |
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I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. 
