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 are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Page 1191860Full view - About this book
| Jacob Gould Schurman - Ethics - 1887 - 292 pages
...descended from some one primordial form. And even the cautious Darwin maintains that all " animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." In this genealogical table of all living beings man cannot be separated from the apes. Both are modified... | |
| 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... | |
| John Collins Francis - Athenæum, London - 1888 - 612 pages
...causes, like those determining the birth and death of an individual.' ' I believe,' says Mr. Darwin, ' that animals have descended from at most only four...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead us one step further — namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some... | |
| 1888 - 508 pages
...form." In another work, the "Origin of the Species," Mr. Darwin says that, "I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or. five progenitors,...equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype."... | |
| Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1896 - 490 pages
...transmutation, and all his reasoning ends in this grand conclusion : " I believe that animals and plants have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely: — that all animals and plants have descended... | |
| Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1896 - 482 pages
...transmutation, and all his reasoning ends in this grand conclusion : " I believe that animals and plants have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely: — that all animals and plants have descended... | |
| 1888 - 328 pages
...directly in Opposition to the founder of evolution, Charles Darwin, who says; "I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Again, Darwin says: "Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that... | |
| Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - Experience - 1898 - 420 pages
...protoplasm. To quote Darwin's words, towards the conclusion of his great work, the Origin of Species: "Therefore I cannot doubt that the theory of descent...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. — Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, that all animals and plants have descended... | |
| Self-culture - 1899 - 880 pages
...monistic position. In the <( Origin of Species," pages 298-9, he says: (<I believe that animals are L From this it is not a long step to the derivation of all living beings from one germ — a view more... | |
| George Woodward Warder - Creation - 1900 - 358 pages
...conclusion of all his great work in the last pages of " Origin of Specie," " I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Spencer and all scientists acknowledge the invisible forces... | |
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