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1  o'connor's 
 5866.0Review." Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. O'CONNOR'S (R.) Field Sports of France; or
1  oak-tree 
 3552.551monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy
2  oasis 
 5247.72Northern Africa, Benghazi, Cyrene, the Oasis of Siwah, &c. Second Edition. Woodcuts
 6046.51Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. Woodcuts. Post 8vo
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 234.860day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for
 369.634expressly experimentised for this object, and failed. The offspring from the
 457.83methodical selection, with a distinct object in view, to make a new strain or sub
 842.1479and as pollen is formed for the sole object of fertilisation, its destruction
 908.67a breeder selects for some definite object, and free intercrossing will wholly
 1237.1339whilst a tool for some particular object had better be of some particular shape
 1560.694better and better, for so trifling an object as driving away flies; yet we should
 1964.91first crosses and of hybrids. Our chief object will be to see whether or not the rules
 2420.665striving during long ages for the same object, might make a new breed hardly
 3201.160one class; but when we have a distinct object in view, and do not look to some
 3321.436purpose, and be used for a distinct object: in certain fish the swim-bladder seems
 3566.674become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or
 3592.295from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving
6  objected 
 451.10chiefly in these characters. It may be objected that the principle of selection has
 886.75with innumerable flowers, it may be objected that pollen could seldom be carried
 2165.126numerous connecting links, it may be objected, that time will not have sufficed for
 2520.18as they now are. Some writers have objected to any extinct species or group of
 2536.565ruminants and pachyderms. Yet he who objected to call the extinct genera, which thus
 3412.166most geologists believe. It cannot be objected that there has not been time sufficient
5  objection 
 890.144only in a limited sense. I believe this objection to be valid, but that nature has
 2147.558is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory
 2331.292than by Professor Sedgwick, as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of
 2520.263between two living forms, the objection is probably valid. But I apprehend that
 2552.14consecutive formations. It is no real objection to the truth of the statement, that the
12  objections 
 858.123instances, is open to the same objections which were at first urged against Sir
 1378.23to my theory. These difficulties and objections may be classed under the following
 1612.83discussed some of the difficulties and objections which may be urged against my theory
 2143.44sixth chapter I enumerated the chief objections which might be justly urged against the
 2307.432and most obvious of all the many objections which may be urged against my views
 2626.168to be much more perfect, the main objections to the theory of natural selection are
 3378.20recapitulated. That many and grave objections may be advanced against the theory of
 3406.478most obvious and forcible of the many objections which may be urged against my theory
 3412.39I can answer these questions and grave objections only on the supposition that the
 3420.37Such is the sum of the several chief objections and difficulties which may justly be
 3424.76especial notice that the more important objections relate to questions on which we are
 3448.940I could, the opposed difficulties and objections: now let us turn to the special facts
7  objects 
 1412.1070as these species are already defined objects (however they may have become so), not
 1426.68come to be tolerably well-defined objects, and do not at any one period present
 2855.266Europe, though hides, wool, and other objects likely to carry seeds have been largely
 3069.227for arranging together those living objects which are most alike, and for
 3117.640mere putting together and separating objects more or less alike. But I must explain
 3456.871to a large extent defined and distinct objects. Dominant species belonging to the
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 548.363H. C. Watson, to whom I lie under deep obligation for assistance of all kinds, has marked
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 248.53pass without expressing my deep obligations to Dr. Hooker, who for the last fifteen
 4820.48Priest; His Duties, Acquirements and Obligations. Third Edition. Post 8vo. 7s. 6d
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 1914.201and in many other cases, Gärtner is obliged carefully to count the seeds, in order
4  obliterated 
 1167.1245this view have more or less perfectly obliterated its eyes, and natural selection will
 1522.1377and quite distinct purpose, or be quite obliterated. The illustration of the swimbladder
 2367.1107been wholly worn away by denudation, or obliterated by metamorphic action, we ought to find
 3301.1799in many embryos, has not been obliterated, either by the successive variations in
2  obliteration 
 1536.920an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands. If all
 3343.1153and this will tend to cause the entire obliteration of a rudimentary organ. As the
9  obscure 
 258.298the best chance of making out this obscure problem. Nor have I been disappointed
 272.723in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can
 272.753remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the
 590.753species. But so many causes tend to obscure this result, that I am surprised that
 681.79species to increase in number is most obscure. Look at the most vigorous species; by
 1185.226much to both means combined, is a very obscure question. That habit or custom has some
 1205.63of correlation is very frequently quite obscure. M. Is. Geoffroy St. Hilaire has
 1323.752and these stripes are sometimes very obscure, or actually quite lost, in dark
 1612.300acts of creation are utterly obscure. We have seen that species at any one
7  obscured 
 2466.554whole economy of nature will be utterly obscured. Whenever we can precisely say why this
 3215.347of an organ might become so much obscured as to be finally lost, by the atrophy
 3215.776to have been thus to a certain extent obscured. There is another and equally curious
 3247.443of allied animals is sometimes much obscured; and cases could be given of the larvæ
 3301.1132of the adult may have been modified and obscured; we have seen, for instance, that
 3307.482the embryo as a picture, more or less obscured, of the common parent-form of each
 3566.1216to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class
1  obscurity 
 590.911will here allude to only two causes of obscurity. Fresh-water and salt-loving plants
4  observation 
 1245.280by Mr. Waterhouse. I infer also from an observation made by Professor Owen, with respect to
 1741.358Huber, who had ample opportunities for observation, in Switzerland the slaves habitually
 2729.544I am certain of the accuracy of this observation. Again, I can show that the carcasses
 5858.97Forest of Dean, derived from Personal Observation and other Sources, Public, Private
33  observations 
 258.143coadaptation. At the commencement of my observations it seemed to me probable that a careful
 405.132fertile. I can state this from my own observations, purposely made on the most distinct
 566.387As he extends the range of his observations, he will meet with more cases of
 566.520of closely-allied forms. But if his observations be widely extended, he will in the end
 681.916destruction of seeds, but, from some observations which I have made, I believe that it is
 878.812of C. C. Sprengel and from my own observations, which effectually prevent the stigma
 1177.946similar facts in Ceylon, and analogous observations have been made by Mr. H. C. Watson on
 1737.352of making slaves. Hence I will give the observations which I have myself made, in some
 2026.432attended to; but I believe, from observations communicated to me by Mr. Hewitt, who
 2076.5from the seed of the other. From observations which I have made on certain varieties
 2173.168which rocky coasts are worn away. The observations on this head by Hugh Miller, and by
 2402.637face of the earth. If we may trust the observations of Philippi in Sicily, the successive
 2474.6could be easily correlated. These observations, however, relate to the marine
 2508.680faunas. Lyell has made similar observations on some of the later tertiary
 2954.410Mr. Windsor Earl has made some striking observations on this head in regard to the great
 3179.1689De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities
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 836.224thought very improbable; for we often observe great differences in the natural
 1309.722inherited. Indeed, we may sometimes observe a mere tendency to produce a rudiment
 1345.601of the most distinct species. Now observe the case of the several breeds of
 1787.477cell. It was most interesting to me to observe that wherever several bees had begun to
34  observed 
 532.230have thus arisen, from being frequently observed in the individuals of the same species
 717.14CHECKS TO INCREASE. indeed I have observed in parts of South America) the
 725.715vegetation springs up; but it has been observed that the trees now growing on the
 1147.31flight. Kirby has remarked (and I have observed the same fact) that the anterior tarsi
 1149.552perish; that the beetles in Madeira, as observed by Mr. Wollaston, lie much con- [page
 1177.898Mr. Thwaites informs me that he has observed similar facts in Ceylon, and analogous
 1211.1316of correlation, that I have recently observed in some garden pelargoniums, that the
 1412.62how abruptly, as Alph. De Candolle has observed, a common alpine species disappears
 1546.1300the same anomalous organ, it should be observed that, although the general appearance
 1669.648of animals having been but little observed except in Europe and North America, and
 1737.601proper communities, and have never been observed in the nests of F. sanguinea. The
 1741.82unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their masters
 1755.129instinct of making slaves. Let it be observed what a contrast the instinctive habits
 1807.245growing comb, flexures may sometimes be observed, corresponding in position to the
 1819.1001not aware that any such case has been observed; nor would any good be derived from a
 1863.91in this species, as Mr. F. Smith has observed, the larger workers have simple eyes
 1986.823the same two species was long ago observed by Kölreuter. To give an instance
 1986.1232cases could be given. Thuret has observed the same fact with certain sea-weeds or
 1986.1421common in a lesser degree. He has observed it even between forms so closely
 2022.683to reach the ovarium. It has also been observed that when pollen of one species is
 2032.1496to vary, as every experimentalist has observed. Thus we see that when organic beings
 2279.1051a rare contingency; for it has been observed by more than one palæontologist, that
 2408.682a striking instance has lately been observed in Switzerland. There is some reason to
 2472.849in the forms of life has been observed by several authors: so it is, according
 2681.830to a single region; and it has been observed by several naturalists, that the most
 2743.831to M. Hartung to inquire whether he had observed erratic boulders on these islands, and
 2749.298prevalent gales of wind. It should be observed that scarcely any means of transport
 2811.80ice-borne fragments of rock have been observed on the eastern side as far south as lat
 2833.13tropical seas. It should be observed that the northern species and forms
 3016.590accounts for a law which has long been observed, and which has lately been admirably
 3165.286parallelism has sometimes been observed between the sub-groups in distinct
 3225.452the common characteristic (as Owen has observed) of all low or little-modified forms
 3446.297and sub-species, and species. Let it be observed how naturalists differ in the rank
 3470.1097of absolute perfection have not been observed. The complex and little known laws
1  observed—and 
 2892.513country. But two facts, which I have observed—and no doubt many others remain to be
1  observed—throw 
 2892.560and no doubt many others remain to be observed—throw some light on this subject. When a duck
9  observer 
 542.1268found, but because analogy leads the observer to suppose either that they do now
 558.18SPECIES. CHAP. II. that most careful observer Gärtner, they can be crossed only with
 1484.324On the other hand, the acutest observer by examining the dead body of the water
 1580.1264and colour are correlated. A good observer, also, states that in cattle
 1731.132rufescens by Pierre Huber, a better observer even than his celebrated father. This
 1924.1383are in progress, so careful an observer as Gärtner would have castrated his
 2070.208species of Verbascum, by so good an observer and so hostile a witness, as Gärtner
 2078.65has been confirmed by every subsequent observer, has proved the remarkable fact, that
 2173.232by Hugh Miller, and by that excellent observer Mr. Smith of Jordan Hill, are most
12  observers 
 608.400some sagacious and most experienced observers, and, after deliberation, they concur
 1225.967of universal application; but many good observers, more especially botanists, believe in
 1580.238little artificial selection. Careful observers are convinced that a damp climate
 1721.67according to Dr. Gray and to some other observers, the European cuckoo has not utterly
 1910.177those two conscientious and admirable observers, Kölreuter and Gärtner, who almost
 1918.447than that the two most experienced observers who have ever lived, namely, Kölreuter
 1936.427has, also, been confirmed by other observers in the case of Hippeastrum with its sub
 2165.829to read special treatises by different observers on separate formations, and to mark how
 2199.528what time this must have consumed! Good observers have estimated that sediment is
 2480.765So, again, several highly competent observers believe that the existing productions
 2482.147has greatly struck those admirable observers, MM. [page] 325 CHAP. X. THROUGHOUT
 2793.488singular fact remarked on by several observers, that the productions of Europe and
1  observes 
 3095.1503M. Richard sagaciously saw, as Jussieu observes, that this genus should still be
1  observing 
 449.47to plants, there is another means of observing the accumulated effects of selection
1  obstacles 
 2645.93is, that barriers of any kind, or obstacles to free migration, are related in a
1  obstinacy 
 1695.217for many generations the courage and obstinacy of greyhounds; and a cross with a
1  obstinately 
 1980.1151is not a particularly distinct species, obstinately failed to fertilise, or to be
6  obtain 
 371.205every breed which I could purchase or obtain, and have been most kindly favoured
 435.1217but it would take him six years to obtain head and beak." In Saxony the
 852.804so characterised would be able to obtain its food more quickly, and so have a
 1257.420natural selection, I think we can obtain some light. In our domestic animals, if
 2291.946points of structure. So that we might obtain the parent-species and its several
 3251.1240into prehensile organs; they again obtain a well-constructed mouth; but they have
7  obtained 
 242.911I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the
 369.482character; but that a race could be obtained nearly intermediate between two
 582.87that some interesting results might be obtained in regard to the nature and relations
 2291.1069beds of a formation, and unless we obtained numerous transitional gradations, we
 3267.96signify, for instance, to a bird which obtained its food best by having a long beak
 5251.91of Christianity, or the Credibility obtained to a Scripture Kevelation from its
 6100.168Miniatures, &c. &c., in this Country. Obtained from Personal Inspection during Visits
1  obtaining 
 687.132but very frequently it is not the obtaining food, but the serving as prey to other
27  obvious 
 413.847the explanation of this fact will be obvious when we come to treat of selection
 417.766which pigeons have undergone, will be obvious when we treat of Selection. We shall
 441.342from it, the principle would be so obvious as hardly to be worth notice; but its
 455.1253of good and bad qualities is so obvious. At the present time, eminent breeders
 487.103by man has played, it becomes at once obvious, how it is that our domestic races show
 665.537increased in any sensible degree. The obvious explanation is that the conditions of
 741.349escape, or on which it preys. This is obvious in the structure of the teeth and
 864.151with separated sexes, it is of course obvious that two individuals must always unite
 864.265case of hermaphrodites this is far from obvious. Nevertheless I am strongly inclined to
 892.809but here currents in the water offer an obvious means for an occasional cross. And, as
 900.494a cross between two individuals is an obvious necessity for each birth; in many
 1197.331most imperfectly understood. The most obvious case is, that modifications accumulated
 1771.699of three adjoining cells. It is obvious that the Melipona saves wax by this
 2143.296transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty. I assigned reasons why such
 2147.538chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be
 2307.408is probably the gravest and most obvious of all the many objections which may be
 2564.171species, being closely related, is obvious. As the accumulation of each formation
 2671.22modified. On these views, it is obvious, that the several species of the same
 2675.8DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XI. is also obvious that the individuals of the same
 2924.1247marine birds, are peculiar; and it is obvious that [page] 391 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC
 2958.76and as during changes of level it is obvious that islands separated by shallow
 2972.1770on the view here maintained, it is obvious that the Galapagos Islands would be
 3000.792of strictly American forms, and it is obvious [page] 404 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
 3103.205of each species. But it is by no means obvious, on the ordinary view, why the
 3255.302some manner on growth. But there is no obvious reason why, for instance, the wing of a
 3406.445no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and forcible of the many objections
 3434.12or aboriginal species. There is no obvious reason why the principles which have
5  obviously 
 501.138A high degree of variability is obviously favourable, as freely giving the
 641.169distinct species, which in most cases obviously differ from each other far more than do
 916.163true and uniform in character. It will obviously thus act far more efficiently with
 2592.227of each quarter of the world will obviously tend to leave in that quarter, during
 3398.716modern periods; and such changes will obviously have greatly facilitated migration. As
2  occasion 
 719.180relations. I shall hereafter have occasion to show that the exotic Lobelia fulgens
 1725.795of the prize, and becomes for the occasion parasitic. In this case, as with the
43  occasional 
 192.267and of the level of the land, and by occasional means — Dispersal during the Glacial
 369.336no doubt that a race may be modified by occasional crosses, if aided by the careful
 473.63process of improvement, through the occasional preservation of the best individuals
 515.975have once been established, their occasional intercrossing, with the aid of
 653.270of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of
 796.342Nor ought we to think that the occasional destruction of an animal of any
 872.365fully exposed to the weather! but if an occasional cross be indispensable, the fullest
 882.564these facts explained on the view of an occasional cross with a distinct individual being
 892.344terrestrial plants, on the view of an occasional cross being indispensable, by
 892.597wind in the case of plants, by which an occasional cross could be effected with
 892.830the water offer an obvious means for an occasional cross. And, as in the case of flowers
 896.247body, that access from without and the occasional influence of a distinct individual can
 900.214the vegetable and animal kingdoms, an occasional intercross with a distinct individual
 920.101that we have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses take place with all
 1299.57we have another case, namely, the occasional appearance in all the breeds, of slaty
 1430.174on slow changes of climate, or on the occasional immigration of new inhabitants, and
 1448.288diversified habits, either constant or occasional, in the same species. And it seems to
 1450.764believe, by lessening the danger from occasional falls. But it does not follow from this
 1683.195Several cases also, could be given, of occasional and strange habits in certain species
 1717.1156nest. If the old bird profited by this occasional habit, or if the young were made more
 1717.1603be apt to follow by inheritance the occasional and aberrant habit of their mother, and
 1723.4and care for her own offspring. The occasional habit of birds laying their eggs in
 1729.49in natural selection making an occasional habit permanent, if of advantage to the
 1924.76and, on the other hand, that an occasional cross with a distinct individual or
 2418.595complete act of creation, but only an occasional scene, taken almost at hazard, in a
 2635.259and of the level of the land, and by occasional means—Dispersal during the Glacial
 2687.1233and geographical changes and various occasional means of transport, the belief that
 2713.104but which more properly might be called occasional means of distribution. I shall here
 2749.602These means, however, would suffice for occasional transport across tracts of sea some
 2749.1830within the last few centuries, through occasional means [page] 365 CHAP. XI. DURING THE
 2753.479against what would be effected by occasional means of transport, during the long
 2867.65points of the southern hemisphere by occasional means of transport, and by the aid, as
 2886.299seem to favour the possibility of their occasional transport by accidental means; like
 2960.446to me to accord better with the view of occasional means of transport having been largely
 2972.1854likely to receive colonists, whether by occasional means of transport or [page] 399 CHAP
 2988.136of the islands having been stocked by occasional means of transport—a seed, for instance
 3024.278to the many and curious means of occasional transport,—a subject which has hardly
 3028.305how diversified are the means of occasional transport, I have discussed at some
 3044.444period under different conditions or by occasional means of transport, and by the species
 3398.248much stress ought not to be laid on the occasional wide diffusion of the same species; for
 3398.993as yet profoundly ignorant of the many occasional means of transport. With respect to
 3476.701on the theory of creation is the occasional appearance of stripes on the shoulder
 3498.221geographical changes and to the many occasional and unknown means of dispersal, then we
46  occasionally 
 337.99as our varieties certainly do occasionally revert in some of their characters to
 411.347the blue colour and various marks occasionally appearing in all the breeds, both when
 505.194useful or pleasing to man appear only occasionally, the chance of their appearance will be
 842.1602a little pollen were carried, at first occasionally and then habitually, by the pollen
 864.374hermaphrodites two individuals, either occasionally or habitually, concur for the
 890.514give a better chance of pollen being occasionally carried from tree to tree. That trees
 898.351But if, in fact, all hermaphrodites do occasionally intercross with other individuals, the
 912.597organisms which cross only occasionally, and likewise in animals which unite
 1108.244and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus
 1305.219once by some other breed, the offspring occasionally show a tendency to revert in character
 1311.142it might be expected that they would occasionally vary in an analogous manner; so that a
 1311.741the species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral
 1317.644of an important and uniform nature occasionally varying so as to acquire, in some
 1323.977it, as stated by Mr. Blyth and others, occasionally appear: and I have been informed by
 1361.1596variations, and these same species may occasionally revert to some of the characters of
 1478.219my theory, that such individuals would occasionally have given rise to new species, having
 1486.72has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with
 1697.877in this line; and this is known occasionally to happen, as I once saw in a pure
 1703.901poultry, sheep, and pigs! No doubt they occasionally do make an attack, and are then beaten
 1717.692been asserted that the American cuckoo occasionally lays her eggs in other birds' nests
 1717.898of various birds which have been known occasionally to lay their eggs in other birds' nests
 1717.1070habits of the American cuckoo; but that occasionally she laid an egg in another bird's nest
 1737.815nest is slightly disturbed, the slaves occasionally come out, and like their masters are
 1839.361articulate animals in a state of nature occasionally become sterile; and if such insects had
 1859.848character. On this view we ought occasionally to find neuter-insects of the same
 1986.1808differ in fertility in a small, and occasionally in a high degree. Several other
 1998.252there is generally some difference, and occasionally the widest possible difference, in the
 2040.276sterility in those hybrids which occasionally and exceptionally resemble closely
 2556.284of time: a very ancient form might occasionally last much longer than a form elsewhere
 2725.17restricted ranges. But seeds may be occasionally transported in another manner. Drift
 2741.38the seed of a vetch. Thus seeds might occasionally be transported to great distances; for
 2743.171bird, I can hardly doubt that they must occasionally have transported seeds from one part to
 2898.497I have before mentioned that earth occasionally, though rarely, adheres in some
 2898.771are the greatest wanderers, and are occasionally found on the most remote and barren
 2924.537for, as already explained, species occasionally arriving after long intervals in a new
 2928.450visit either periodically or occasionally this island. Madeira does not possess
 2948.1514American species either regularly or occasionally visit Bermuda, at the distance of
 2966.635Would the just-hatched young occasionally crawl on and adhere to the feet of
 3173.365and intermediate parent-forms having occasionally transmitted to the present day
 3239.1136in the whelp of the lion. We occasionally though rarely see something of this
 3323.232organ has been rendered rudimentary occasionally differs much. This latter fact is well
 3323.539lead us to expect to find, and which is occasionally found in monstrous individuals of the
 3426.1060cease; for new varieties are still occasionally produced by our most anciently
 3472.290yet when varieties enter any zone, they occasionally assume some of the characters of the
 3476.206at the burrowing tucutucu, which is occasionally blind, and then at certain moles, which
 4860.141with elucidatory notes. Published occasionally in demy 8vo. Volumes. Already
1  occasionally—perhaps 
 870.254that a cross with another individual is occasionally—perhaps at very long intervals—indispensable
1  occasions 
 1448.18very little weight. Here, as on other occasions, I lie under a heavy disadvantage, for
1  occupations 
 5528.14Woodcuts. Post8vo. 12s. —— Scenes and Occupations of Country Life. With Recollections of
12  occupied 
 908.550place in its polity not so perfectly occupied as might be, natural selection will
 948.163polity of nature, which can be better occupied by some of the inhabitants of the
 982.409seizing on places at present occupied by other animals: some of them, for
 1004.270are thus enabled to encroach on places occupied by other beings. Now let us see how
 1032.315are either unoccupied or not perfectly occupied by other beings; and this will depend
 2458.561one group will have seized on the place occupied by a species belonging to a distinct
 2570.1041places which must have been previously occupied, we may believe, if all the animals and
 2570.1613would be enabled to seize on places now occupied by our native plants and animals. Under
 2930.92and their places are apparently occupied by the other inhabitants; in the
 2988.648the best-fitted ground more perfectly occupied by distinct plants in one island than
 3404.250insensibly in going from a district occupied by one species into another district
 3404.296by one species into another district occupied by a closely allied species, we have no
3  occupy 
 982.775more places they would be enabled to occupy. What applies to one animal will apply
 3061.240descendants of each species trying to occupy as many and as different places as
 3123.1685genus, though much isolated, will still occupy its proper intermediate position; for F
1  occupying 
 2910.299of the species, however few, already occupying any pond, yet as the number of kinds is
53  occur 
 337.1530and reversions of character probably do occur; but natural selection, as will
 399.495with black. These several marks do not occur together in any other species of the
 542.869I will not here enumerate, sometimes occur in deciding whether or not to rank one
 596.803reason why more varieties should occur in a group having many species, than in
 699.154at least, this seems generally to occur with our game animals—often ensue: and
 701.917abundant in the few spots where they do occur; and that of some social plants being
 766.944battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of
 766.1004of thousands of generations? If such do occur, can we doubt (remem- [page] 81 CHAP
 778.431and unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing. Not
 850.215impotent; now if we suppose this to occur in ever so slight a degree under nature
 948.673effected, unless favourable variations occur, and variation itself is apparently
 1090.732useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus
 1197.176when slight variations in any one part occur, and are accumulated through natural
 1315.934from analogous variation) which already occur in some other members of the same group
 1321.129repeat that such cases certainly do occur, and seem to me very remarkable. I
 1331.1093In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by
 1343.52Poole whether such face-stripes ever occur in the eminently striped Kattywar breed
 1418.732intermediate between two other forms occur, they are much rarer numerically than
 1426.339until favourable variations chance to occur, and until a place in the natural
 1478.409proper type. And such instances do occur in nature. Can a more striking instance
 1538.189undoubtedly, grave cases of difficulty occur, some of which will be discussed in my
 1546.77even more serious difficulty; for they occur in only about a dozen fishes, of which
 1574.1502for this act; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and
 1669.1326in the same species can be shown to occur in nature. Again as in the case of
 1930.679a plant, which (he says) I never saw to occur in a case of its natural fecundation
 1972.743in Dianthus, these two opposite cases occur. The fertility, both of first crosses
 2056.357dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one
 2110.180can be shown that this does sometimes occur with hybrids; yet I grant much less
 2110.748either parent would be more likely to occur with mongrels, which are descended from
 2143.366reasons why such links do not commonly occur at the present day, under the
 2285.1262levels. Hence, when the same species occur at the bottom, middle, and top of a
 2472.599found in the Chalk of Europe, but which occur in the formations either above or below
 2683.317most probable. Undoubtedly many cases occur, in which we cannot explain how the
 2743.966granite and other rocks, which do not occur in the archipelago. Hence we may safely
 2819.581species belonging to European genera occur. On the highest mountains of Brazil
 2823.178peculiar flora of the Cape of Good Hope occur. At the Cape of Good Hope a very few
 2823.578the volcanic cones of Java, many plants occur, either identically the same or
 2825.133other species, not introduced by man, occur on the lowlands; and a long list can be
 2831.171In marine productions, similar cases occur; as an example, I may quote a remark by
 2886.44I believe that the same species never occur in the fresh waters of distant
 2948.167not support small mammals, for they occur in many parts of the world on very
 2948.858Though terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aërial mammals do
 2948.902on oceanic islands, aërial mammals do occur on almost every island. New Zealand
 2954.769quadrupeds. No doubt some few anomalies occur in this great archipelago, and there is
 3004.558allied or representative species occur, there will likewise be found some
 3004.806wherever many closely-allied species occur, there will be found many forms which
 3044.130which are therein absent, but which occur above and below: so in space, it
 3151.577let them be ever so trifling, occur together throughout a large group of
 3173.813few species; and such species as do occur are generally very distinct from each
 3315.856the same species the petals sometimes occur as mere rudiments, and sometimes in a
 3476.644reversions to long-lost characters occur. How inexplicable on the theory of
 3510.374closely allied yet distinct species occur, many doubtful forms and varieties of
 3510.444varieties of the same species likewise occur. It is a rule of high generality that
28  occurred 
 234.408philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might
 766.821useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some
 976.360they both go on (as has actually occurred with tumbler-pigeons) choosing and
 1090.571fact if no variation ever had occurred useful to each being's own welfare, in
 1090.659the same way as so many variations have occurred useful to man. But if variations useful
 1376.86work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so
 1649.259bee making its cells will probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty
 1773.28two cells. Reflecting on this case, it occurred to me that if the Melipona had made its
 1787.902broke into each other. As soon as this occurred, the bees ceased to excavate, and began
 2273.1421we know what vast geographical changes occurred in other parts of America during this
 2285.725yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its accumulation. In other cases we
 2339.643Cuvier used to urge that no monkey occurred in any tertiary stratum; but now
 2373.570land, whence the sediment was derived, occurred in the neighbourhood of the existing
 2420.237might be adapted (and no doubt this has occurred in innumerable instances) to fill the
 2502.239that blank intervals of vast duration occurred during the periods when the bed of the
 2508.41suspect that cases of this nature have occurred in Europe. Mr. Prestwich, in his
 2536.514in nearly the same manner as has occurred with ruminants and pachyderms. Yet he
 2683.483climatal changes, which have certainly occurred within recent geological times, must
 2707.62that great mutations of level, have occurred within the period of existing organisms
 2717.423of green and seasoned timber; and it occurred to me that floods might wash down
 2761.311on, and then pass away, as formerly occurred. As the cold came on, and as each more
 2855.484Something of the same kind must have occurred on the intertropical mountains: no
 2886.704also, could be given of this having occurred during floods, without any change of
 2966.742ground, and thus get transported? It occurred to me that land-shells, when
 3024.74level of the land, which have certainly occurred within the recent period, and of other
 3024.153of other similar changes which may have occurred within the same period; if we remember
 3123.1452lost,—as sometimes seems to have occurred with existing organisms. All the
 3233.746of a modification of this nature having occurred, that naturalists can hardly avoid
7  occurrence 
 618.190of intermediate linking forms, and the occurrence of such links cannot affect the actual
 1339.1517that I was led solely from the occurrence of the face-stripes on this hybrid from
 2084.56can be proved to be of universal occurrence, or to form a fundamental distinction
 2687.809productions; and thirdly, the occurrence of the same terrestrial species on
 2773.297are on the perfectly well-ascertained occurrence of a former Glacial period, seem to me
 2863.258only say that as far as regards the occurrence of identical species at points so
 3359.1005is the principle of inheritance—the occurrence of rudimentary organs and their final
7  occurring 
 778.384better chance of profitable variations occurring; and unless profitable variations do
 1219.582doubt that some apparent correlations, occurring throughout whole orders, are entirely
 1323.110any important character, but from occurring in several species of the same genus
 2038.334into one, without some disturbance occurring in the development, or periodical
 2143.1122innumerable intermediate links not now occurring everywhere throughout nature de- [page
 2570.1326On the other hand, from what we see now occurring in New Zealand, and from hardly a
 2886.1222With respect to allied fresh-water fish occurring at very distant points of the world, no
7  occurs 
 812.157to that sex, the same fact probably occurs under nature, and if so, natural
 900.546for each birth; in many others it occurs perhaps only at long intervals; but in
 1211.1476two upper petals; and that when this occurs, the adherent nectary is quite aborted
 1237.335of the same part or organ, when it occurs in lesser numbers, is constant. The
 1472.133of the same species. When either case occurs, it would be easy for natural selection
 2014.311extent parallel. Something analogous occurs in grafting; for Thouin found that
 2032.300In both cases, the sterility occurs in various degrees; in both, the male
23  ocean 
 1464.575they had been inhabitants of the open ocean, and had used their incipient organs of
 2205.261beds had once extended into the open ocean. The same story is still more plainly
 2227.516an enormously large proportion of the ocean, the bright blue tint of the water
 2351.1526land, the tropical parts of the Indian Ocean would form a large and perfectly
 2379.1317for instance, the bed of the Pacific Ocean were now converted into a continent, we
 2608.907condition, or may lie buried under the ocean. Passing from these difficulties, all
 2651.351shores of America, a wide space of open ocean extends, with not an island as a
 2651.1408range from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean, and many shells are common to the
 2707.321thus hypothetically bridged over every ocean, and have united almost every island to
 2731.206by gales to vast distances across the ocean. We may I think safely assume that
 2749.1283are blown across the whole Atlantic Ocean, from North America to the western
 2783.800from each other by the Atlantic Ocean and by the extreme northern part of the
 2787.149completely separated by wider spaces of ocean. I believe the above difficulty may be
 2793.414and their separation by the Atlantic Ocean. We can further understand the singular
 2801.765by nearly a hemisphere of equatorial ocean. These cases of relationship, without
 2898.840remote and barren islands in the open ocean; they would not be likely to alight on
 2948.1456wandering by day far over the Atlantic Ocean; and two North American species either
 2954.529near Celebes by a space of deep ocean; and this space separates two widely
 3502.851separated by the whole intertropical ocean. Although two areas may present the
 3504.239which cannot cross wide spaces of ocean, as frogs and terrestrial mammals
 3504.401species of bats, which can traverse the ocean, should so often be found on islands
 4261.8and spiders, 442. P. Pacific Ocean, faunas of, 348. Paley on no organ
 5630.286down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. Thirtieth Thousand. Map, Plates, and
45  oceanic 
 200.68productions — On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batrachians and of
 928.105at any small isolated area, such as an oceanic island, although the total number of
 928.385there, and nowhere else. Hence an oceanic island at first sight seems to have
 1141.987or have lately inhabited several oceanic islands, tenanted by no beast of prey
 1480.32tree! Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds, yet in the quiet Sounds of
 2375.126studded with many islands; but not one oceanic island is as yet known to afford even a
 2707.1070other and to the several intervening oceanic islands. I freely admit the former
 2711.44each other, and with the many existing oceanic islands. Several facts in distribution
 2711.696proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands likewise seem to me opposed to
 2743.496in comparison with the plants of other oceanic islands nearer to the mainland, and (as
 2878.66water productions—On the inhabitants of oceanic islands—Absence of Batrachians and of
 2892.1668or rivulet, if blown across sea to an oceanic island or to any other distant point
 2898.158over continents and to the most remote oceanic islands. This is strikingly shown, as
 2912.22fitted for them. On the Inhabitants of Oceanic Islands.—We now come to the last of the
 2914.22facts, which I [page] 389 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. have selected as presenting
 2918.39The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with
 2922.95have on New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be named. In St
 2922.448and animals have not been created on oceanic islands; for man has unintentionally
 2924.12perfectly than has nature. Although in oceanic islands the number of kinds of
 2926.22is obvious that [page] 391 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. marine birds could arrive at
 2930.0apparently present analogous facts. Oceanic islands are sometimes deficient in
 2936.983would be little likely to reach distant oceanic islands; and an herbaceous plant
 2940.22whole orders on [page] 393 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. oceanic islands, Bory St
 2942.0page] 393 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. oceanic islands, Bory St. Vincent long ago
 2942.529of frogs, toads, and newts on so many oceanic islands cannot be accounted for by
 2942.1019therefore why they do not exist on any oceanic island. But why, on the theory of
 2944.549but this group cannot be considered as oceanic, as it lies on a bank connected with
 2948.867terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aërial mammals do occur on
 2950.22have been modi- [page] 395 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. fied through natural
 2960.48foregoing remarks on the inhabitants of oceanic islands,—namely, the scarcity of kinds
 2960.564of time, than with the view of all our oceanic islands having been formerly connected
 2964.22not be over- [page] 397 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. looked. I will here give a
 2966.89of the cases of difficulty. Almost all oceanic islands, even the most isolated and
 2974.22of transport or [page] 399 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. by formerly continuous land
 2986.22amount [page] 401 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. of difference in the several
 2996.22islet of [page] 403 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. Porto Santo possess many
 3000.79character of the fauna and flora of oceanic islands, namely, that the inhabitants
 3008.22that in world- [page] 405 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. ranging genera all the
 3038.80as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants
 3038.507mammals, should be absent from oceanic islands, whilst the most isolated
 3337.984and of the wings of birds inhabiting oceanic islands, which have seldom been forced
 3504.72subsequent modification, we can see why oceanic islands should be inhabited by few
 3504.299terrestrial mammals, should not inhabit oceanic islands; and why, on the other hand
 3508.86the absence of all other mammals, on oceanic islands, are utterly inexplicable on
 4088.9advantages of, 96. Islands, oceanic, 388. Isolation favourable to selection
12  oceans 
 2375.24sea. Looking to the existing oceans, which are thrice as extensive as the
 2375.361continental islands existed where our oceans now extend; for had they existed there
 2379.248facts, we may infer that where our oceans now extend, oceans have extended from
 2379.267infer that where our oceans now extend, oceans have extended from the remotest period
 2379.609led me to conclude that the great oceans are still mainly areas of subsidence
 2379.1130continents may have existed where oceans are now spread out; and clear and open
 2379.1176are now spread out; and clear and open oceans may have existed where our continents
 2608.509that as far as we can see, where our oceans now extend they have for an enormous
 2649.232likely to have endured so long as the oceans separating continents, the differences
 2707.1287their migration. In the coral-producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked, as
 2725.145on those in the midst of the widest oceans; and the natives of the coral-islands
 2942.161the many islands with which the great oceans are studded. I have taken pains to
5  ocelli 
 1863.138the larger workers have simple eyes (ocelli), which though small can be plainly
 1863.235whereas the smaller workers have their ocelli rudimentary. Having carefully dissected
 1863.573workers of intermediate size have their ocelli in an exactly intermediate condition
 1863.1239of Myrmica have not even rudiments of ocelli, though the male and female ants of
 1863.1313ants of this genus have well-developed ocelli. I may give one other case: so
1  october 
 63.8Down, Bromley, Kent, October 1st, 1859. [page iii] ON THE ORIGIN
1  oddest 
 1689.348and tastes, and likewise of the oddest tricks, associated with certain frames
1  odious 
 1737.285the truth of so extraordinary and odious an instinct as that of making slaves
1  odour 
 554.492different flavour and emit a different odour; they flower at slightly different
1  oenas 
 2153.174some other allied species, such as C. oenas. So with natural species, if we look
11  offer 
 258.257animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this
 856.86so that whole fields of the red clover offer in vain an abundant supply of precious
 892.800but here currents in the water offer an obvious means for an occasional
 1245.1629and females; but as females more rarely offer remarkable secondary sexual characters
 1540.217chapter. The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty; it
 1546.20kind is possible. The electric organs offer another and even more serious
 1865.215gladly availed myself of Mr. F. Smith's offer of numerous specimens from the same
 2552.197succeeding faunas, that certain genera offer exceptions to the rule. For instance
 2944.8be very difficult to explain. Mammals offer another and similar case. I have
 3101.996important vital organs, are found to offer characters of quite subordinate value
 3484.52instincts, marvellous as some are, they offer no greater difficulty than does
2  offered 
 2040.436root of the matter: no explanation is offered why an organism, when placed under
 2687.434pretend that any explanation could be offered of many such cases. But after some
7  offers 
 713.172existence of cattle. Perhaps Paraguay offers the most curious instance of this; for
 790.270whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic
 892.273understand this remarkable fact, which offers so strong a contrast with terrestrial
 1546.887to different families and orders, offers a parallel case of difficulty. Other
 2201.151of the degraded matter, probably offers the best evidence of the lapse of time
 2227.1644period. The molluscan genus Chiton offers a partially analogous case. With
 2657.265widest generality, and every continent offers innumerable instances. Nevertheless the
3  office 
 1741.568Huber expressly states, their principal office is to search for aphides. This
 3317.185for the other. Thus in plants, the office of the pistil is to allow the pollen
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 299.100term gardeners mean a single bud or offset, which suddenly assumes a new and
 303.233of the parent has affected a bud or offset, and not the ovules or pollen. But it
86  offspring 
 172.483when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal — Hybrids and mongrels
 295.1034not quite regularly, and producing offspring not perfectly like their parents or
 327.827appears, it tends to appear in the offspring at a corresponding age, though
 331.99of cattle could appear only in the offspring when nearly mature; peculiarities in
 331.463yet that it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at which it first
 331.831the same manner as in the crossed offspring from a short-horned cow by a long
 349.109propagate their kind so truly, were the offspring of any single species, then such facts
 369.658for this object, and failed. The offspring from the first cross between two pure
 399.890the above-specified marks, the mongrel offspring are very apt suddenly to acquire these
 405.272to bring forward one case of the hybrid offspring of two animals clearly distinct being
 405.786and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile, inter se, seems to
 411.439kept pure and when crossed; the mongrel offspring being perfectly fertile;—from these
 471.88think of the inherited character of the offspring of their domestic animals, yet any one
 471.351animals would thus generally leave more offspring than the inferior ones; so that in this
 532.129are known frequently to appear in the offspring from the same parents, or which may be
 588.471will be the most likely to yield offspring which, though in some slight degree
 641.872and will generally be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a
 641.887be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance
 804.123period of life, tend to reappear in the offspring at the same period;—for instance, in
 816.268unsuccessful competitor, but few or no offspring. Sexual selection is, therefore, less
 816.654would have a poor chance of leaving offspring. Sexual selection by always allowing
 828.106these advantages to their male offspring. Yet, I would not wish to attribute all
 836.751best chance of surviving and of leaving offspring. Some of its young would probably
 866.298gives vigour and fertility to the offspring; and on the other hand, that close
 920.318much in vigour and fertility over the offspring from long-continued self-fertilisation
 920.951can be given to their modified offspring, solely by natural selection preserving
 970.1057character from its parents, and the offspring of this variety again to differ from
 1018.522from (A), may represent its varying offspring. The variations are supposed to be
 1034.377proceeding from (A). The modified offspring from the later and more highly improved
 1052.9NATURAL SELECTION. CHAP. IV. modified offspring of a species get into some distinct
 1056.1122original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation
 1090.922inheritance they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle
 1090.1355adapted males the greatest number of offspring. Sexual selection will also give
 1098.184will tend to transmit to their modified offspring that superiority which now makes them
 1123.117the varying or plastic condition of the offspring. The male and female sexual elements
 1285.103not entail death, but only gives fewer offspring to the less favoured males. Whatever
 1303.457liable to appear in the crossed offspring of two distinct and differently
 1305.209only once by some other breed, the offspring occasionally show a tendency to revert
 1305.1083probable hypothesis is, not that the offspring suddenly takes after an ancestor some
 1315.825theory, sometimes to find the varying offspring of a species assuming characters
 1339.730quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by
 1365.59may be of each slight difference in the offspring from their parents-and a cause for each
 1388.92being sterile and producing sterile offspring, whereas, when varieties are crossed
 1721.158all maternal love and care for her own offspring. The occasional habit of birds laying
 1843.100structure, this being inherited by its offspring, which again varied and were again
 1851.841and transmitted to their fertile offspring a tendency to produce sterile members
 1896.471when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal—Hybrids and mongrels
 1906.133they produce either few or no offspring. Hybrids, on the other hand, have their
 1908.169likewise the fertility of their mongrel offspring, is, on my theory, of equal importance
 1910.69when crossed and of their hybrid offspring. It is impossible to study the several
 1914.399when crossed and by their hybrid offspring, with the average number produced by
 1972.89to cross, and which rarely produce any offspring, are generally very sterile; but the
 1992.193their likeness on their hybrid offspring; but these two powers do not at all
 2038.549breed inter se, they transmit to their offspring from generation to generation the same
 2046.480gives vigour and fertility to the offspring. I believe, indeed, from the facts
 2048.299give vigour and fertility to the offspring. But we have seen that greater changes
 2050.58when crossed, and of their Mongrel offspring.—It may be urged, as a most forcible
 2054.296facility, and yield perfectly fertile offspring. I fully admit that this is almost
 2078.416crosses, and he found their mongrel offspring perfectly fertile. But one of these
 2086.113of the question of fertility, the offspring of species when crossed and of
 2086.422between the so-called hybrid offspring of species, and the so-called mongrel
 2086.470of species, and the so-called mongrel offspring of varieties. And, on the other hand
 2088.671extreme amount of variability in their offspring is notori- [page] 273 CHAP. VIII
 2094.963of its proper function of producing offspring identical with the parent-form. Now
 2108.43female, so that the mule, which is the offspring of the male-ass and mare, is more like
 2108.132an ass, than is the hinny, which is the offspring of the female-ass and stallion. Much
 2112.132a general and close similarity in the offspring of crossed species, and of crossed
 2126.589to the vigour and fertility of their offspring; and that slight changes in the
 2128.122as varieties, and their mongrel offspring, are very generally, but not quite
 2420.172inorganic, should recur. For though the offspring of one species might be adapted (and no
 2424.29CHAP. X. exterminated by its improved offspring, it is quite incredible that a fantail
 2550.184descent in the diagram are the modified offspring of those which lived at the fifth stage
 2614.239together, and to leave no modified offspring on the face of the earth. But the utter
 3010.1437favourable for the conversion of its offspring, firstly into new varieties and
 3263.1205age alone, has been communicated to the offspring from the reproductive element of one
 3269.202reappear at a corresponding age in the offspring. Certain variations can only appear at
 3269.571to appear at a corresponding age in the offspring and parent. I am far from meaning that
 3283.663of life, and have been inherited by the offspring at a corresponding not early period
 3315.1132rudiment of the pistil in the hybrid offspring was much increased in size; and this
 3386.66when intercrossed and of their mongrel offspring cannot be considered as universal; nor
 3392.816their conditions of life, and that the offspring of slightly modified forms or varieties
 3426.285rendered impotent, fails to reproduce offspring exactly like the parent-form
 3456.429to preserve the most divergent offspring of any one species. Hence during a long
 3490.93we can at once see why their crossed offspring should follow the same complex laws in
 3490.300in other such points,—as do the crossed offspring of acknowledged varieties. On the other
 3496.320the living and the extinct being the offspring of common parents. As the groups which
199  often 
 140.422and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same
 242.798on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions
 289.134cultivated plants, such as wheat, still often yield new varieties: our oldest
 295.567domesticated animals and plants, though often weak and sickly, yet breeding quite
 327.236and sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its
 327.363remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often transmitted from one sex to both sexes
 327.595in the males of our domestic breeds are often transmitted either exclusively, or in a
 333.76I may here refer to a statement often made by naturalists—namely, that our
 333.425facts the above statement has so often and so boldly been made. There would be
 343.24CHAP. I. the same species, also, often have a somewhat monstrous character; by
 343.207in several trifling respects, they often differ in an extreme degree in some one
 343.1117could not so perpetually recur. It has often been stated that domestic races do not
 343.1521give, we have no right to expect often to meet with generic differences in our
 351.7in favour of this view. It has often been assumed that man has chosen for
 365.1440freely in a state of nature? It has often been loosely said that all our races of
 403.895These two distinct cases are often confounded in treatises on inheritance
 417.856also, see how it is that the breeds so often have a somewhat monstrous character. It
 443.81but the variations are here often more abrupt. No one supposes that our
 455.57of English history choice animals were often imported, and laws were passed to
 485.327constitutions or structure, would often succeed better in the one country than
 511.1039imported from some other country, often from islands. Although I do not doubt
 548.1354another as varieties, or, as they are often called, as geographical races! Many
 560.480These varieties, moreover, will be often ranked by some authors as species. Look
 566.769and the truth of this admission will often be disputed by other naturalists. When
 584.643to a certain extent from commonness), often give rise to varieties sufficiently
 602.1024small genera have in the lapse of time often increased greatly in size; and that
 602.1084in size; and that large genera have often come to their maxima, declined, and
 608.190of difference between the species is often exceedingly small. I have endeavoured
 616.432and in so far resemble varieties, often have much restricted ranges. For
 633.404and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same
 645.932face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not
 717.612assuredly the merest trifle would often give the victory to one organic being
 731.147remote in the scale of nature. This is often the case with those which may strictly
 741.169is related, in the most essential yet often hidden manner, to that of all other
 778.1195or habits of one inhabitant would often give it an advantage over others; and
 778.1290modifications of the same kind would often still further increase the advantage
 784.1164in his power, all his productions. He often begins his selection by some half
 802.55being, will cause other modifications, often of the most unexpected nature. As we
 804.1460in the adult will probably often affect the structure of the larva; but
 812.44Selection.—Inasmuch as peculiarities often appear under domestication in one sex
 816.1241all day long; male stag-beetles often bear wounds from the huge mandibles of
 818.30spear. Amongst birds, the contest is often of a more peaceful character. All those
 822.439in confinement well know that they often take individual preferences and
 836.218this be thought very improbable; for we often observe great differences in the
 842.390dusted with pollen, and would certainly often transport the pollen from one flower to
 878.249this end: but, the agency of insects is often required to cause the stamens to spring
 890.611to all Orders have their sexes more often separated than other plants, I find to
 934.662owing to oscillations of level, will often have recently existed in a broken
 948.286kind. The existence of such places will often depend on physical changes, which are
 948.760a very slow process. The process will often be greatly retarded by free
 948.1027selection will always act very slowly, often only at long intervals of time, and
 1018.677all to appear simultaneously, but often after long intervals of time; nor are
 1032.113prevail and multiply: a medium form may often long endure, and may or may not produce
 1034.483lines of descent, will, it is probable, often take the place of, and so destroy, the
 1072.555genera, with those now living, yet are often, in some degree, intermediate in
 1131.46zone of habitation of other species, often acquiring in a very slight degree some
 1131.558coasts, as every collector knows, are often brassy or lurid. Plants which live
 1147.132many male dung-feeding beetles are very often broken off; he examined seventeen
 1159.404I was assured by a Spaniard, who had often caught them, that they were frequently
 1167.1294its eyes, and natural selection will often have effected other changes, such as an
 1173.836the climates under which they live is often overrated. [page] 140 LAWS OF
 1189.1181case, also, of the kidney-bean has been often cited for a similar purpose, and with
 1195.190that the effects of use and disuse have often been largely combined with, and
 1199.80some authors, tend to cohere; this is often seen in monstrous plants; and nothing
 1211.94the daisy, and this difference is often accompanied with the abortion of parts
 1211.1391that the central flower of the truss often loses the patches of darker colour in
 1219.7service to the species. We may often falsely attribute to correlation of
 1273.670and becomes only of specific value, often becomes variable, though its
 1275.449might surely expect to find them still often continuing to vary in those parts of
 1279.808it is probable that they should still often be in some degree variable,—at least
 1297.76and a variety of one species often assumes some of the characters of an
 1309.864a rudiment of a fifth stamen so often appears, that this plant must have an
 1315.530this, from the blue colour and marks so often appearing when distinct breeds of
 1351.228in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of
 1361.794thus we can understand why it should often still be variable in a much higher
 1400.430the land. These representative species often meet and interlock; and as the one
 1406.524marine areas now continuous must often have existed within recent times in a
 1432.36Secondly, areas now continuous must often have existed within the recent period
 1440.280constantly tends, as has been so often remarked, to exterminate the parent
 1472.517lead to changed habits; both probably often change almost simultaneously. Of cases
 1472.790instances could be given: I have often watched a tyrant flycatcher
 1476.50branches, almost like a creeper; it often, like a shrike, kills small birds by
 1540.56is that of neuter insects, which are often very differently constructed from
 1568.509and finally, that sexual selection will often have largely modified the external
 1580.969kept by savages in different countries often have to struggle for their own
 1586.688a useful modification of one part will often have entailed on other parts
 1592.269But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct
 1606.398is that the use of the sting should so often cause the insect's own death: for if on
 1612.803now living on a continuous area, must often have been formed when the area was not
 1612.1049area, an intermediate variety will often be formed, fitted for an intermediate
 1626.236whilst aided by the other, must often have largely facilitated transitions
 1628.555a part formerly of high importance has often been retained (as the tail of an
 1630.610generally the smaller one, will often yield, as we see they do yield, to the
 1638.417of conditions of existence, so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier
 1655.142expresses it, of judgment or reason, often comes into play, even in animals very
 1657.543of the body. When once acquired, they often remain constant throughout life
 1681.233of the country inhabited, but often from causes wholly unknown to us
 1813.811two pieces of comb met at an angle, how often the bees would entirely pull down and
 1821.444difficult: it is known that bees are often hard pressed to get sufficient nectar
 1825.767circumstance determined, as it probably often does determine, the numbers of a humble
 1837.419insect-communities: for these neuters often differ widely in instinct and in
 1859.985of structure; and this we do find, even often, considering how few neuter-insects out
 1859.1375perfect gradations of this kind. It often happens that the larger or the smaller
 1885.265different conditions of life, yet often retaining nearly the same instincts
 1914.614must be castrated, and, what is often more important, must be secluded in
 1914.871in his house. That these processes are often injurious to the fertility of a plant
 1920.397the case, and that the fertility often suddenly decreases in the first few
 1924.1052artificial fertilisation pollen is as often taken by chance (as I know from my own
 1950.430ranked in distinct genera, have often bred in this country with either pure
 1974.471for their degree of fertility is often found to differ greatly in the several
 1982.522for extremely different climates, can often be crossed with ease. [page
 1986.245been reciprocally crossed. There is often the widest possible difference in the
 1986.425capacity in any two species to cross is often completely independent of their
 1998.392produced from reciprocal crosses often differ in fertility. Now do these
 2000.639fertile hybrids? Why should there often be so great a difference in the result
 2006.88the male sexual element of the one will often freely act on the female sexual element
 2012.307the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is
 2032.214independent of general health, and is often accompanied by excess of size or great
 2034.346of life have been disturbed, though often in so slight a degree as to [page
 2048.384or changes of a particular nature, often render organic beings in some degree
 2088.242which have long been cultivated are often variable in the first generation; and I
 2094.357expect that such variability would often continue and be super-added to that
 2094.874in the conditions of life, being thus often rendered either impotent or at least
 2102.511With animals one variety certainly often has this prepotent power over another
 2110.804which are descended from varieties often suddenly produced and semi-monstrous in
 2118.204The sterility is of all degrees, and is often so slight that the two most careful
 2171.539into pebbles, sand, or mud. But how often do we see along the bases of retreating
 2223.308are known and named from single and often broken specimens, or from a few
 2259.177be increased, and new stations will often be formed;—all circumstances most
 2279.777this same movement of subsidence will often tend to sink the area whence the
 2281.169its accumulation. When we see, as is so often the case, a formation composed of beds
 2385.667Sedgwick, &c., have unanimously, often vehemently, maintained the immutability
 2458.464to the same family. But it must often have happened that a new species
 2458.1035improved, a few of the sufferers may often long be preserved, from being fitted to
 2492.295species. The process of diffusion may often be very slow, being dependent on
 2506.168contemporaneous formations have often been accumulated over very wide spaces
 2512.35periods,—a formation in one region often corresponding with a blank interval in
 2540.456that ancient and extinct genera are often in some slight degree intermediate in
 2564.222the accumulation of each formation has often been interrupted, and as long blank
 2602.1133and that varieties have at first often been local. All these causes taken
 2608.178he may urge the apparent, but often falsely apparent, sudden coming in of
 2614.332of a whole group of species may often be a very slow process, from the
 2618.335living. Why ancient and extinct forms often tend to fill up gaps between existing
 2618.557The more ancient a form is, the more often, apparently, it displays characters in
 2663.788to organism being, as I have already often remarked, the most important of all
 2699.122unite for each birth, or which often intercross, I believe that during the
 2723.1148The fact of the larger fruits often floating longer than the small, is
 2731.299their rate of flight would often be 35 miles an hour; and some authors
 2886.131But on the same continent the species often range widely and almost capriciously
 2910.1516travel from one to another and often distant piece of water. Nature, like a
 2924.156found nowhere else in the world) is often extremely large. If we compare, for
 2924.706liable to modification, and will often produce groups of modified descendants
 2936.729of many insular beetles. Again, islands often possess trees or bushes belonging to
 2936.1330plants. If so, natural selection would often tend to add to the stature of
 2994.132some one island to the others. But we often take, I think, an erroneous view of the
 3024.388on; if we bear in mind how often a species may have ranged continuously
 3026.364are insuperable; though they often are in this case, and in that of the
 3032.1129the same physical conditions should often be inhabited by very different forms of
 3040.26species. As the late Edward Forbes often insisted, there is a striking
 3044.731of time, or to a certain area, are often characterised by trifling characters in
 3069.1073famous one of Linnæus, and which we often meet with in a more or less concealed
 3087.154organs in this condition are often of high value in classification. No one
 3095.256in natural history. Hence, as has often been remarked, a species may depart
 3109.24of descent. Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of
 3111.30Geographical distribution has often been used, though perhaps not quite
 3153.202them. This may be safely done, and is often done, as long as a sufficient number of
 3165.36As members of distinct classes have often been adapted by successive slight
 3173.233is that the more ancient forms of life often present characters in some slight
 3185.604as may be seen in the diagram so often referred to), mounting up through many
 3203.183their organisation. This resemblance is often expressed by the term "unity of type
 3211.176in some way to the modified form, but often affecting by correlation of growth
 3217.868in a spire. In monstrous plants, we often get direct evidence of the possibility
 3239.263animals within the same class are often strikingly similar: a better proof of
 3239.879genus, and of closely allied genera, often resemble each other in their first and
 3241.113of the same class resemble each other, often have no direct relation to their condi
 3263.51assumed, perhaps from monstrosities often affecting the embryo at a very early
 3315.37The meaning of rudimentary organs is often quite unmistakeable: for instance there
 3315.971with separated sexes, the male flowers often have a rudiment of a pistil; and
 3325.110upper jaws of whales and ruminants, can often be detected in the embryo, but
 3329.289a rudimentary organ in the adult, is often said to have retained its embryonic
 3331.1026suppose that the minute papilla, which often represents the pistil in male flowers
 3337.429the whole flower in the cauliflower. We often see rudiments of various parts in
 3343.1092as far as is possible, will probably often come into play; and this will tend to
 3394.460some one part to the others. We are often wholly unable [page
 3398.435A broken or interrupted range may often be accounted for by the extinction of
 3404.366we have no just right to expect often to find intermediate varieties in the
 3406.603species appear, though certainly they often falsely appear, to have come in
 3412.1535species vary most, and varieties are often at first local,—both causes rendering
 3438.310the same genus. But the struggle will often be very severe between beings most
 3440.286leave most progeny. But success will often depend on having special weapons or
 3442.382had not come into play. It has often been asserted, but the assertion is
 3442.576acting on external characters alone and often capriciously, can produce within a
 3496.496with its early descendants will often be intermediate in character in
 3504.418which can traverse the ocean, should so often be found on islands far distant from
 3512.162to group, and with extinct groups often falling in between recent groups, is
 3516.116though of no service to the being, are often of high classificatory value; and why
 3520.51sometimes by natural selection, will often tend to reduce an organ, when it has
 3552.416a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals
 3972.29on variable parts being often monstrous, 155. Geographical
5  oftener 
 596.160the larger genera in each country would oftener present varieties, than the species of
 693.1260or in ascending a mountain, we far oftener meet with stunted forms, due to the
 948.475natural selection will probably still oftener depend on some of the inhabitants
 2829.40identically the same; but they are much oftener specifically distinct, though related
 3496.631why the more ancient a fossil is, the oftener it stands in some degree intermediate
14  oftenest 
 588.133the most numerous in individuals,—which oftenest produce well-marked varieties, or, as I
 816.1385of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenest provided with special weapons. The
 842.951which excreted most nectar, would be oftenest visited by insects, and would be
 842.993visited by insects, and would be oftenest crossed; and so in the long-run would
 1080.79the species of the larger genera which oftenest present varieties or incipient species
 1153.929which most readily took to flight will oftenest have been blown to sea and thus have
 1211.1172flowers, those nearest to the axis are oftenest subject to peloria, and become regular
 1331.1103of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun
 2299.744those which have the widest range, that oftenest present varieties; so that with shells
 2299.954formations of Europe, which have oftenest given rise, first to local varieties
 2323.200these far-ranging species which would oftenest produce new varieties; and the
 2488.356in their own country, would naturally oftenest give rise to new varieties or incipient
 2602.1064those which have varied most, and have oftenest given rise to new species; and that
 2616.88forms of life, which are those that oftenest vary, will in the long run tend to
1  oil-bearing 
 1225.590foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds. When the seeds in our fruits
2  oil-gland 
 379.11DOMESTIC PIGEONS. CHAP. I. touch; the oil-gland is quite aborted. Several other less
 381.843the development and abortion of the oil-gland; the number of the primary wing and
25  older 
 285.74the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of
 477.319other plants, when compared with the older varieties or with their parent-stocks
 968.137varieties of flowers, take the place of older and inferior kinds. In Yorkshire, it is
 1657.36Frederick Cuvier and several of the older metaphysicians have compared instinct
 2213.376as some geologists suppose, a range of older rocks underlies the Weald, on the
 2351.377believe that certain much older fishes, of which the affinities are as
 2371.185do not support the view, that the older a formation is, the more it has
 2379.1392we should there find formations older than the silurian strata, supposing
 2408.1542intrude for a period in the midst of an older formation, and then allow the pre
 2480.1134be liable to be classed with somewhat older European beds. Nevertheless, looking to
 2480.1523those forms which are only found in the older underlying deposits, would be correctly
 2488.216arising, which have some advantage over older forms; and those forms, which are
 2522.512distinct groups. Yet if we compare the older Reptiles and [page] 331 CHAP. X
 2526.17OF EXTINCT SPECIES. Batrachians, the older Fish, the older Cephalopods, and the
 2526.33Batrachians, the older Fish, the older Cephalopods, and the eocene Mammals
 2542.629much modification, should in the older formations make some slight approach to
 2542.699approach to each other; so that the older members should differ less from each
 2596.945only one species of each of the six older genera has left modified descendants
 2596.1211of two or three alone of the six older genera will have been the parents of
 2608.767a wholly different aspect; and that the older continents, formed of formations older
 2608.806older continents, formed of formations older than any known to us, may now all be in
 2789.306and still warmer period, such as the older Pliocene period, a large number of the
 3406.193period between the extinct and still older species, why is not every geological
 3456.753inevitably supplant and exterminate the older, less improved and intermediate
 3496.906more improved forms have conquered the older and less improved organic beings in the
11  oldest 
 289.87to be variable under cultivation. Our oldest cultivated plants, such as wheat, still
 289.165still often yield new varieties: our oldest domesticated animals are still capable
 1345.969change of form or character. When the oldest and truest breeds of various colours
 2345.482in which specimens are preserved in the oldest tertiary beds; from the ease with which
 2408.105rate, or in the same degree. In the oldest tertiary beds a few living shells may
 2552.479extreme in character are not the oldest, or the most recent; nor are those
 2578.236proof. Seeing, for instance, that the oldest known mammals, reptiles, and fish
 2944.70case. I have carefully searched the oldest voyages, but have not finished my
 3834.5Denudation, rate of, 285. ——of oldest rocks, 308. Development of ancient
 4178.41domestica, 225. Metamorphism of oldest rocks 308. Mice destroying bees
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 548.573species; and in making this list he has omitted many trifling varieties, but which
 548.696as species, and he has entirely omitted several highly polymorphic genera
1  one's 
 493.217value any novelty, however slight, in one's own possession. Nor must the value
1  one—not 
 846.366striking instances. I will give only one—not as a very striking case, but as
1  oneself 
 2213.0IMPERFECTION OF THE CHAP. IX. oneself the great dome of rocks which must have
1  onion 
 884.45varieties of the cabbage, radish, onion, and of some other plants, be allowed
2  onites 
 1147.247not one had even a relic left. In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually
 4235.0PEAR. O. Oak, varieties of, 50. Onites apelles, 135. Orchis, pollen of
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 477.1228chanced to appear, selecting it, and so onwards. But the gardeners of the classical
 717.192the insectivorous birds, and so onwards in ever-increasing circles of
 1843.162varied and were again selected, and so onwards. But with the working ant we have an
 3109.433to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally
4  opened 
 542.1421the entry of doubt and conjecture is opened. Hence, in determining whether a form
 1219.931selection, except in fruits which opened; so that the individual plants
 1737.416myself made, in some little detail. I opened fourteen nests of F. sanguinea, and
 3566.54untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation
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 810.728insects, and used exclusively for opening the cocoon—or the hard tip to the beak
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1  opercular 
 1249.737rule in its largest application. The opercular valves of sessile cirripedes (rock
1  operculum 
 2966.1239As this species has a thick calcareous operculum, I removed it, and when it had formed a
9  opinion 
 303.285not the ovules or pollen. But it is the opinion of most physiologists that there is no
 359.297regard to sheep and goats I can form no opinion. I should think, from facts
 359.822from one wild stock. Mr. Blyth, whose opinion, from his large and varied stores of
 389.97I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that
 544.85ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment
 568.125species—that is, the forms which in the opinion of some naturalists come very near to
 1237.672seems connected with the very general opinion of naturalists, that beings low in the
 2199.283successive formation, we have, in the opinion of most geologists, enormously long
 3544.30the blindness of preconceived opinion. These authors seem no more startled at
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 2267.197aware that two palæontologists, whose opinions are worthy of much deference, namely
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 1442.109and structure.—It has been asked by the opponents of such views as I hold, how, for
 1743.590latter ruthlessly killed their small opponents, and carried their dead bodies as food
1  opportunities 
 1741.340According to Huber, who had ample opportunities for observation, in Switzerland the
2  opportunity 
 248.9page] 3 INTRODUCTION. let this opportunity pass without expressing my deep
 790.258working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each
12  opposed 
 337.1384number of generations, would be opposed to all experience. I may add, that when
 441.35I. all the best breeders are strongly opposed to this practice, except sometimes
 1793.461rhombic plate had been left between the opposed basins, but the work, from the
 1795.576too quickly, and convex on the opposed side, where the bees had worked less
 1799.93the bees in such cases stand in the opposed cells and push and bend the ductile and
 1833.63of very difficult explanation could be opposed to the theory of natural selection
 2100.301a single experiment; and seems directly opposed to the results of several experiments
 2132.289given in this chapter do not seem to me opposed to, but even rather to support the view
 2426.488and Woodward (though all strongly opposed to such views as I maintain) admit its
 2711.456these and other such facts seem to me opposed to the admission of such prodigious
 2711.732of oceanic islands likewise seem to me opposed to the belief of their former
 3448.915as fairly as I could, the opposed difficulties and objections: now let us
25  opposite 
 242.847leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A
 305.1125some cases it can be shown that quite opposite conditions produce [page] 11 CHAP. I
 1139.171at all, although living under the most opposite climates. Such considerations as these
 1767.1007bases of three adjoining cells on the opposite side. In the series between the extreme
 1789.425have broken into each other from the opposite sides. The bees, however, did not
 1793.321intersection between the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax. In parts
 1793.620at very nearly the same rate on the opposite sides of the ridge of vermilion wax, as
 1795.365at exactly the same rate from the opposite sides; for I have noticed half
 1801.551comb; and they gnaw into this from the opposite sides, always working circularly as
 1918.546should have arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions in regard to the very same
 1972.728for instance in Dianthus, these two opposite cases occur. The fertility, both of
 2118.311ever lived, have come to diametrically opposite conclusions in ranking forms by this
 2556.999short-beaked tumblers, which are at the opposite end of the series in this same respect
 2645.839also, we see the same fact; for on the opposite sides of [page] 348 GEOGRAPHICAL
 2655.52shores of Africa, on almost exactly opposite meridians of longitude. A third great
 2681.1149of the same species, a directly opposite rule prevailed; and species were not
 2711.149difference in the marine faunas on the opposite sides of almost every continent,—the
 2787.258still earlier changes of climate of an opposite nature. We have good reason to believe
 2813.103at these several far distant points on opposite sides of the world. But we have good
 2849.156the more temperate latitudes of the opposite hemisphere. Although we have reason to
 2886.994The wide difference of the fish on opposite sides of continuous mountain-ranges
 3109.268There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a
 3392.656by another parallel, but directly opposite, class of facts; namely, that the
 3534.288of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy [page
 3572.457of the inhabitants of the sea on the opposite sides of a continent, and the nature of
4  opposition 
 359.719I am doubtfully inclined to believe, in opposition to several authors, that all the races
 1657.328performed, indeed not rarely in direct opposition to our conscious will! yet they may be
 1948.297in each successive generation, in opposition to the constantly repeated admonition
 3351.576organs, of no importance; the wide opposition in value between analogical or adaptive
2  optic 
 1502.51we can commence a series with an optic nerve merely coated with pigment, and
 1506.528converted the simple apparatus of an optic nerve merely coated with pigment and
4  optical 
 1506.613by transparent membrane, into an optical instrument as perfect as is possessed
 1510.433man? If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to
 1514.1037and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as
 5888.57of Athenian Architecture, and the Optical Refinements exhibited in the
2  orchard 
 429.1122the host of agricultural, culinary, orchard, and flower-garden races of plants
 449.410of fruit of the same species in the orchard, in comparison with the leaves and
1  orchidaceous 
 719.365never can set a seed. Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of
1  orchidean 
 3141.1060a single definition. As soon as three Orchidean forms (Monochanthus, Myanthus, and
3  orchis 
 1546.1103sticky gland at the end, is the same in Orchis and Asclepias,—genera almost as remote
 1610.360by which the flowers of the orchis and of many other plants are fertilised
 4236.0varieties of, 50. Onites apelles, 135. Orchis, pollen of, 193, Organs of extreme
61  order 
 333.802ensued. It would be quite necessary, in order to prevent the effects of intercrossing
 435.51some breeds of cattle and sheep. In order fully to realise what they have done
 588.286been anticipated; for, as varieties, in order to become in any degree permanent
 641.1178by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of
 651.719with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus
 830.53of the action of Natural Selection.—In order to make it clear how, as I believe
 940.536fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the
 996.252would have had to be modified, in order to have gained an advantage over the
 1217.634founded his main divisions of the order on analogous differences. Hence we see
 1225.152growth; or, as Goethe expressed it, "in order to spend on one side, nature is forced
 1249.481s remark, whilst investigating this Order, and I am fully convinced that the rule
 1291.0page] 158 LAWS OF VARIATION. CHAP. V. order to fit the several species to their
 1500.319from the same original parent-form, in order to see what gradations are possible
 1516.663the class have been developed; and in order to discover the early transitional
 1596.761its tail when preparing to spring, in order to warn the doomed mouse. But I have
 1606.172in so many members of the same great order, and which has been modified but not
 1610.528fir-trees of dense clouds of pollen, in order that a few granules may be wafted by a
 1657.1534this, it was much embarrassed, and, in order to complete its hammock, seemed forced
 1793.739deepened the basins on both sides, in order to have succeeded in thus leaving flat
 1877.841but wholly insufficient length, in order to show the power of natural selection
 1898.144with the quality of sterility, in order to prevent the confusion of all organic
 1914.242carefully to count the seeds, in order to show that there is any degree of
 1914.656more important, must be secluded in order to prevent pollen being brought to it
 1964.210been endowed with this quality, in order to prevent their crossing and blending
 2120.624difficulty in being grafted together in order to prevent them becoming inarched in
 2213.900course, cannot be done; but we may, in order to form some crude notion on the
 2243.118thick, solid, or extensive masses, in order to withstand the incessant action of
 2279.3glacial epoch to the present day. In order to get a perfect gradation between two
 2279.176accumulating for a very long period, in order to have given sufficient time for the
 2279.593the same, which is necessary in order to enable the same species to live on
 2343.89the belief that this great and distinct order had been suddenly produced in the
 2426.821members have continuously existed, in order to have generated either new and
 2488.478victorious in a still higher degree in order to be preserved and to survive. We have
 2512.343regions could be arranged in the same order, in accordance with the general
 2512.421succession of the form of life, and the order would falsely appear to be strictly
 2528.891from the parent-form A, will form an order; for all will have inherited something
 2534.88from A, make, as before remarked, one order; and this order, from the continued
 2534.104as before remarked, one order; and this order, from the continued effects of
 2540.353from the common progenitor of the order, nearly so much as they subsequently
 2556.652would not closely accord with the order in time of their production, and still
 2556.711production, and still less with the order of their disappearance; for the parent
 2657.1133and rabbits and belonging to the same order of Rodents, but they plainly display an
 2898.718to have muddy feet. Birds of this order I can show are the greatest wanderers
 2936.1423when growing on an island, to whatever order they belonged, and thus convert them
 3044.1023to a different class, or to a different order, or even only to a different family of
 3044.1077only to a different family of the same order, differ greatly. In both time and space
 3063.1262genera, descended from (A), form an order distinct from the [page] 413 CHAP
 3069.878but unless it be specified whether order in time or space, or what else is meant
 3085.189in these two divisions of the same order are of unequal physiological importance
 3095.1453structure from the proper type of the order, yet M. Richard sagaciously saw, as
 3119.194must be strictly genealogical in order to be natural; but that the amount of
 3123.237three families, constitute a distinct order from those descended from I, also
 3159.1539are analogical when one class or order is compared with another, but give true
 3163.18CHAP. XIII. the same class or order are compared one with another: thus the
 3171.280a single insect belonging to a new order; and that in the vegetable kingdom, as
 3179.286the points in which it approaches this order, its relations are general, and not to
 3179.1451not any one species, but the general order of Rodents. In this case, however, it
 3203.1014remain connected together in the same order. We never find, for instance, the bones
 3331.485for the sake of symmetry," or in order "to complete the scheme of nature;" but
 3335.18ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. of growth, but in order to excrete horny matter, as that the
 5686.152revised. Maps. Post 8vo. (Published by order of the Lords of the Admiralty
1  ordered 
 455.175of horses under a certain size was ordered, and this may be compared to the
42  orders 
 890.582to tree. That trees belonging to all Orders have their sexes more often separated
 940.716fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the natural
 988.581to eighteen genera and to eight orders, which shows how much these plants
 988.852plants belonging to the most different orders: nature follows what may be called a
 988.1475to what we call different genera and orders. The same principle is seen in the
 1002.830compete with these well-pronounced orders. In the Australian mammals, we see the
 1072.492though generally belonging to the same orders, or families, or genera, with those now
 1078.680form two distinct families, or even orders, according to the amount of divergent
 1078.810diagram. And the two new families, or orders, will have descended from two species
 1084.1639many species of many genera, families, orders, and classes, as at the present day
 1098.1076forming sub-families, families, orders, sub-classes, and classes. The several
 1104.1328various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and genera which have now no
 1205.801accidental, that if we pick out the two orders of mammalia which are most abnormal in
 1217.10LAWS OF VARIATION. CHAP. V. these two orders, is so far-fetched, as it may at first
 1219.609occurring throughout whole orders, are entirely due to the manner alone
 1546.879belonging to different families and orders, offers a parallel case of difficulty
 2359.913progenitors of all the species of the orders to which they belong, for they do not
 2363.53they had been the progenitors of these orders, they would almost certainly have been
 2460.73extermination of whole families or orders, as of Trilobites at the close of the
 2514.561between existing genera, families, and orders, cannot be disputed. For if we confine
 2514.1002Pachyderms, as the two most distinct orders of mammals; but Owen has discovered so
 2514.1130the whole classification of these two orders; and has placed certain pachyderms in
 2518.220animals, though belonging to the same orders, families, or genera with those living
 2542.477and thus unite distinct families or orders. All that we have a right to expect, is
 2596.1365become utterly extinct. In failing orders, with the genera and species decreasing
 2928.1436miles of open sea. The different orders of insects in Madeira apparently
 2930.341proportional numbers of the different orders are very different from [page
 2936.772possess trees or bushes belonging to orders which elsewhere include only herbaceous
 2938.37With respect to the absence of whole orders on [page] 393 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC
 2960.327the singular proportions of certain orders of plants,—herbaceous forms having been
 3067.196to, sub-families, families, and orders, all united into one class. Thus, the
 3113.89the various groups of species, such as orders, sub-orders, families, sub-families
 3119.547genera, families, sections, or orders. The reader will best understand what
 3127.802sub-families, families, sections, orders, and classes. It may be worth while to
 3171.0page] 429 CHAP. XIII. CLASSIFICATION. orders, under still fewer classes, and all in
 3171.381Hooker, it has added only two or three orders of small size. In the chapter on
 3179.1754nature of the affinities of distinct orders of plants. On the principle of the
 3197.975by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which
 3351.1509varieties, species, genera, families, orders, and classes. On this same view of
 3546.526up very wide intervals between existing orders. Organs in a rudimentary condition
 4484.36Trees on islands belong to peculiar orders, 392. —with separated sexes
 6122.46from his Despatches and General Orders. By COLONEL GURWOOD. 8vo. 18s
39  ordinary 
 441.206is far more indispensable even than in ordinary cases. If selection consisted merely in
 1090.1256sexual selection will give its aid to ordinary selection, by assuring to the most
 1167.626suppose that American animals, having ordinary powers of vision, slowly migrated by
 1167.930remarks, "animals not far remote from ordinary forms, prepare the transition from
 1171.273of the two continents on the ordinary view of their independent creation
 1177.1348to their native climate, but in all ordinary cases we assume such to be the case
 1275.7it is to individual anomalies. On the ordinary view of each species having been
 1285.33is less rigid in its action than ordinary selection, as it does not entail death
 1293.680species;—that secondary sexual and ordinary specific differences are generally
 1293.1309sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection,—and to variations in the
 1293.1469adapted for secondary sexual, and for ordinary specific purposes. [page] 159 CHAP. V
 1297.1405the common turnip. According to the ordinary view of each species having been
 1530.92having true lungs have descended by ordinary generation from an ancient prototype
 1580.1816generally admit to have arisen through ordinary generation, we ought not to lay too
 1787.716width (i.e. about the width of an ordinary cell), and were in depth about one
 1787.1188a three-sided pyramid as in the case of ordinary cells. I then put into the hive
 1795.247and then stopping their work. In ordinary combs it has appeared to me that the
 1839.1164neuter insect had been an animal in the ordinary state, I should have unhesitatingly
 1859.461may safely conclude from the analogy of ordinary variations, that each successive
 2094.724view which I have taken on the cause of ordinary variability; namely, that it is due to
 2213.1823a breakwater at the base. Hence, under ordinary circumstances, I conclude that for a
 2626.377me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation: old forms having been
 2677.548rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration
 2948.392multiplied. It cannot be said, on the ordinary view of creation, that there has not
 2972.1688receive no sort of explanation on the ordinary view of independent creation; whereas
 3018.647I think, utterly inexplicable on the ordinary view of the independent creation of
 3044.1613have been connected by the same bond of ordinary generation; and the more nearly any two
 3103.221But it is by no means obvious, on the ordinary view, why the structure of the embryo
 3209.290work on the 'Nature of Limbs.' On the ordinary view of the independent creation of
 3223.40How inexplicable are these facts on the ordinary view of creation! Why should the brain
 3239.1332are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosæ. The points
 3251.1619either into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, or into what I have called
 3349.66difficulty, as they assuredly do on the ordinary doctrine of creation, might even have
 3470.238of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially
 3478.7blue and barred rock-pigeon! On the ordinary view of each species having been
 3492.660of species reappear when the chain of ordinary generation has once been broken. The
 3498.610have been connected by the bond of ordinary generation, and the means of [page
 3544.118a miraculous act of creation than at an ordinary birth. But do they really believe that
 3586.898epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once
82  organ 
 266.593how a simple being or a simple organ can be changed and perfected into a
 266.685being or elaborately constructed organ; secondly the subject of Instinct, or
 784.317being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional
 1225.341if nourishment flows to one part or organ in excess, it rarely flows, at least in
 1233.357well succeed in largely developing any organ, without requiring as a necessary
 1237.120and in species, that when any part or organ is repeated many times in the structure
 1237.320whereas the number of the same part or organ, when it occurs in lesser numbers, is
 1253.24variability. When we see any part or organ developed in a remarkable degree or
 1263.719the extraordinarily-developed part or organ has been so great and long-continued
 1267.134see no reason to doubt. Hence when an organ, however abnormal it may be, has been
 1273.323with surprise that some important organ or part, which is generally very
 1273.884to entertain no doubt, that the more an organ normally differs in the different
 1317.733the character of the same part or organ in an allied species. I have collected
 1361.530species of the same genus. Any part or organ developed to an extraordinary size or
 1361.638in comparison with the same part or organ in the allied species, must have gone
 1361.1123with any extraordinarily-developed organ has become the parent of many modified
 1361.1351in giving a fixed character to the organ, in however extraordinary a manner it
 1494.703if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under
 1500.42looking for the gradations by which an organ in any species has been perfected, we
 1516.45could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have
 1516.446extinction. Or again, if we look to an organ common to all the members of a large
 1516.524class, for in this latter case the organ must have been first formed at an
 1516.729transitional grades through which the organ has [page] 190 DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY
 1522.54cautious in concluding that an organ could not have been formed by
 1522.196amongst the lower animals of the same organ performing at the same time wholly
 1522.591advantage were thus gained, a part or organ, which had performed two functions, for
 1522.991air in their swimbladders, this latter organ having a ductus pneumaticus for its
 1522.1271process of modification by the other organ; and then this other organ might be
 1522.1298by the other organ; and then this other organ might be modified for some other and
 1524.123the highly important fact that an organ originally constructed for one purpose
 1528.412converted a swimbladder into a lung, or organ used exclusively for respiration. I
 1538.62cautious in concluding that any organ could not possibly have been produced
 1544.116has lately been shown that Rays have an organ closely analogous to the electric
 1546.193affinities. Generally when the same organ appears in several members of the same
 1546.1280with apparently the same anomalous organ, it should be observed that, although
 1546.1367general appearance and function of the organ may be the same, yet some fundamental
 1552.81to conjecture by what transitions an organ could have arrived at its present state
 1552.270I have been astonished how rarely an organ can be named, towards which no
 1558.264on this head, as in the case of an organ as perfect and complex as the eye. In
 1566.236selection. Seeing how important an organ of locomotion the tail is in most
 1566.630sorts of purposes, as a fly-flapper, an organ of prehension, or as an aid in turning
 1598.144solely by and for the good of each. No organ will be formed, as Paley has remarked
 1604.292to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the eye. If our reason leads us to
 1622.28of auks. Although the belief that an organ so perfect as the eye could have been
 1622.164stagger any one; yet in the case of any organ, if we know of a long series of
 1622.791into an air-breathing lung. The same organ having performed [page] 205 CHAP. VI
 1628.88be enabled to assert that any part or organ is so unimportant for the welfare of a
 2936.618useless an appendage as any rudimentary organ,—for instance, as the shrivelled wings
 3081.685the mere physiological importance of an organ does not determine its classificatory
 3081.810in allied groups, in which the same organ, as we have every reason to suppose
 3085.342classification of the same important organ within the same group of beings. Again
 3093.82in any one internal and important organ. The importance, for classification
 3215.320that the general pattern of an organ might become so much obscured as to be
 3217.920evidence of the possibility of one organ being transformed into another; and we
 3225.404repetition of the same part or organ is the common characteristic (as Owen
 3231.224seldom enabled to say that one part or organ is homologous with another in the same
 3251.1856destitute of mouth, stomach, or other organ of importance, excepting for
 3289.1156on the other, may have in modifying an organ, such influence will mainly affect the
 3317.3are essentially alike in nature. An organ serving for two purposes, may become
 3321.356of the surrounding anthers. Again, an organ may become rudimentary for its proper
 3321.595converted into a nascent breathing organ or lung. Other similar instances could
 3323.196species, the degree to which the same organ has been rendered rudimentary
 3323.472in an animal or plant no trace of an organ, which analogy would lead us to expect
 3329.33rule, that a rudimentary part or organ is of greater size relatively to the
 3329.138embryo, than in the adult; so that the organ at this early age is less rudimentary
 3329.266rudimentary. Hence, also, a rudimentary organ in the adult, is often said to have
 3337.1103lost the power of flying. Again, an organ useful under certain conditions, might
 3337.1316would continue slowly to reduce the organ, until it was rendered harmless and
 3339.126power of natural selection; so that an organ rendered, during changed habits of life
 3339.272and used for another purpose. Or an organ might be retained for one alone of its
 3343.21ORGANS. former functions. An organ, when rendered useless, may well be
 3343.190of life disuse or selection reduces an organ, and this will generally be when the
 3343.364corresponding ages will reproduce the organ in its reduced state at the same age
 3343.1183entire obliteration of a rudimentary organ. As the presence of rudimentary organs
 3378.682gradations in the perfection of any organ or instinct, which we may consider
 3382.346extremely cautious in saying that any organ or instinct, or any whole being, could
 3520.75selection, will often tend to reduce an organ, when it has become useless by changed
 3524.287thus have little power of acting on an organ during early life; hence the organ will
 3524.322an organ during early life; hence the organ will not be much reduced or rendered
 3524.1005of each organic being and each separate organ having been specially created, how
 3546.614show that an early progenitor had the organ in a fully developed state; and this in
 4262.12Ocean, faunas of, 348. Paley on no organ formed to give pain, 201. Pallas on the
141  organic 
 146.685parent — Explains the Grouping of all organic beings
 184.32X. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS. On the slow and successive
 204.21CHAPTER XIII. MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY
 250.120reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embryological
 250.1464with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external
 256.251leaves the case of the coadaptations of organic beings to each other and to their
 260.720the Struggle for Existence amongst all organic beings throughout the world, which
 266.982consider the geological succession of organic beings throughout time; in the eleventh
 285.907of food. It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during several
 515.325under all circumstances, with all organic beings, as some authors have thought
 526.65arrived at in the last chapter to organic beings in a state of nature, we must
 584.329circumstance) with different sets of organic beings. But my tables further show that
 590.493shows that there is something in the organic or inorganic conditions of that country
 635.204seen in the last chapter that amongst organic beings in a state of nature there is
 635.951conditions of life, and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected
 639.247everywhere and in every part of the organic world. Again, it may be asked, how is
 641.744infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will
 641.1320produce great results, and can adapt organic beings to his own uses, through the
 645.246and philosophically shown that all organic beings are exposed to severe
 653.76follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Every being
 659.45is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a
 675.129mind—never to forget that every single organic being around us may be said to be
 707.97are the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to struggle together
 717.642would often give the victory to one organic being over another. Nevertheless so
 717.794when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause
 731.22Indian ruins! The dependency of one organic being on another, as of a parasite on
 741.117namely, that the structure of every organic being is related, in the most essential
 741.211hidden manner, to that of all other organic beings, with which it comes into
 751.232on the mutual relations of all organic beings; a conviction as necessary, as
 751.373is to keep steadily in mind that each organic being is striving to increase at a
 764.663parent—Explains the Grouping of all organic beings. HOW will the struggle for
 766.659fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their
 790.305offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and
 790.338each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We
 804.523will be enabled to act on and modify organic beings at any age, by the accumulation
 858.872belief of the continued creation of new organic [page] 96 ON THE ADVANTAGE. CHAP. IV
 870.141be of the meaning of the law) that no organic being self-fertilises itself for an
 900.440then, we may conclude that in many organic beings, a cross between two individuals
 906.560grant an indefinite period; for as all organic beings are striving, it may be said, to
 920.557will be great. If there exist organic beings which never intercross
 922.133isolated area, if not very large, the organic and inorganic conditions of life will
 928.668favourable for the production of new organic forms, we ought to make the comparison
 934.1329part in the changing history of the organic world. We can, perhaps, on these views
 954.225of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their
 956.349geometrical powers of increase of all organic beings, each area is already fully
 1084.345we can predict that the groups of organic beings which are now large and
 1086.91and under varying conditions of life, organic beings [page] 127 CHAP. IV. SUMMARY
 1090.335complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their
 1090.715to man. But if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals
 1098.488the nature of the affinities of all organic beings may be explained. It is a truly
 1102.272great fact in the classification of all organic beings; but, to the best of my judgment
 1119.81variations—so common and multiform in organic beings under domestication, and in a
 1125.368co-adaptations of structure between one organic being and another, which we see
 1177.333ranges by the competition of other organic beings quite as much as, or more than
 1357.985is probably from this same cause that organic beings low in the scale of nature are
 1394.463of the record being chiefly due to organic beings not inhabiting [page] 173 CHAP
 1412.640as prey for others; in short, that each organic being is either directly or indirectly
 1412.733in the most important manner to other organic beings, we must see that the range of
 1442.33On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and
 1492.264selection, will acknowledge that every organic being is constantly endeavouring to
 1550.199nearly the same manner two parts in two organic beings, which owe but little of their
 1560.87regard to the whole economy of any one organic being, to say what slight modifications
 1600.42selection tends only to make each organic being as perfect as, or slightly more
 1620.220understand, bearing in mind that each organic being is trying to live wherever it can
 1638.38It is generally acknowledged that all organic beings have been formed on two great
 1638.219agreement in structure, which we see in organic beings of the same class, and which is
 1638.608the varying parts of each being to its organic and inorganic conditions of life; or by
 1889.258law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the
 1898.182order to prevent the confusion of all organic forms. This view certainly seems at
 2020.555resemblance and dissimilarity between organic beings is attempted to be expressed
 2032.1106or less sterile hybrids. Lastly, when organic beings are placed during several
 2034.22has observed. Thus we see that when organic beings are placed under new and
 2048.91in the conditions of life benefit all organic beings, and on the other hand, that
 2048.397of a particular nature, often render organic beings in some degree sterile; and that
 2126.711to the vigour and fertility of all organic beings. It is not surprising that the
 2143.671the presence of other already defined organic forms, than on climate; and, therefore
 2147.492not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most
 2165.195have sufficed for so great an amount of organic change, all changes having been
 2273.1632period shall have been upraised, organic remains will probably first appear and
 2279.1140thick deposits are usually barren of organic remains, except near their upper or
 2311.15OF THE CHAP. IX. whole world in organic beings; yet if all the species were to
 2313.528at a sufficient rate to protect organic bodies from decay, no remains could be
 2357.367in us to dogmatize on the succession of organic beings throughout the world, as it
 2367.222head, are convinced that we see in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum
 2373.242hypothesis. From the nature of the organic remains, which do not appear to have
 2396.32X. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS. On the slow and successive
 2400.92to the geological succession of organic beings, better accord with the common
 2408.896exceptions to this rule. The amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, does
 2412.1514relations of the higher beings to their organic and inorganic conditions of life, as
 2418.414intervals; consequently the amount of organic change exhibited by the fossils
 2420.120if the very same conditions of life, organic and inorganic, should recur. For though
 2472.149India. For at these distant points, the organic remains in certain beds present an
 2486.964we treat of the present distribution of organic beings, and find how slight is the
 2502.408quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains. During these long and blank
 2558.47connected with the statement, that the organic remains from an intermediate formation
 2558.397the general resemblance of the organic remains from the several stages of the
 2602.24CHAP. X. only certain classes of organic beings have been largely preserved in a
 2622.226forms. We can clearly see why the organic remains of closely consecutive
 2637.35IN considering the distribution of organic beings over the face of the globe, the
 2661.81seas. We see in these facts some deep organic bond, prevailing throughout space and
 2677.1078mammals, than perhaps in any other organic beings; and, accordingly, we find no
 2695.324simultaneously created. With those organic beings which never intercross (if such
 2759.226of almost every conceivable kind, organic and inorganic, that within a very
 3032.1794would be an almost endless amount of organic action and reaction,—and we should find
 3051.21CHAPTER XIII. MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY
 3057.33FROM the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other
 3069.1417only known cause of the similarity of organic beings,—is the bond, hidden as it is by
 3123.593genus F; just as some few still living organic beings belong to Silurian genera. So
 3123.690or value of the differences between organic beings all related to each other in the
 3197.293feature in the affinities of all organic beings, namely, their subordination in
 3297.11be said to be retrograde. As all the organic beings, extinct and recent, which
 3351.1290certainly known cause of similarity in organic beings,—we shall understand what is
 3361.171species, genera, and families of organic beings, with which this world is [page
 3382.165amongst broken and failing groups of organic beings; but we see so many strange
 3392.727that the vigour and fertility of all organic beings are increased by slight changes
 3400.283forms all around us? Why are not all organic beings blended together in an
 3412.233been time sufficient for any amount of organic change; for the lapse of time has been
 3412.1379has been geologically explored. Only organic beings of certain classes can be
 3432.24unintentionally exposes organic beings to new conditions of life, and
 3434.419of increase which is common to all organic beings. This high rate of increase is
 3442.110changes, we might have expected that organic beings would have varied under nature
 3460.654This grand fact of the grouping of all organic beings seems to me utterly inexplicable
 3492.448a part in the history of the organic world, almost inevitably follows on the
 3496.151The grand fact that all extinct organic beings belong to the same system with
 3496.930conquered the older and less improved organic beings in the struggle for life. Lastly
 3498.461a parallelism in the distribution of organic beings throughout space, and in their
 3512.53we have seen, that all past and present organic beings constitute one grand natural
 3516.242of all. The real affinities of all organic beings are due to inheritance or
 3524.973to the present day. On the view of each organic being and each separate organ having
 3530.14CHAP. XIV. CONCLUSION. asserted that organic beings in a state of nature are subject
 3552.621from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this
 3560.343When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as
 3564.283workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting, I
 3574.598of the preceding and succeeding organic forms. We must be cautious in
 3574.979as the most important of all causes of organic change is one which is almost
 3578.39others; it follows, that the amount of organic change in the fossils of consecutive
 3578.459we must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time. During
 3586.343futurity; for the manner in which all organic beings are grouped, shows that the
 3606.5of extinct species, 329. ——of organic beings, 411. Agassiz on Amblyopsis
 4287.15appearing, 302, 305. ——, on rate of organic change, 313. —, on continuous
 5766.58History of the Oldest Rocks containing Organic Remains. Third Edition. Map and Plates
52  organisation 
 285.1059amount of variation; and that when the organisation has once begun to vary, it generally
 291.845susceptible than any other part of the organisation, to the action of any change in the
 319.444slightly from each other. The whole organisation seems to have become plastic, and tends
 435.250habitually speak of an animal's organisation as something quite plastic, which they
 590.1213Again, plants low in the scale of organisation are [page] 55 CHAP. II. SPECIES OF
 635.870adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions
 766.517it may be truly said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic. Let it
 798.375of growth, which, when one part of the organisation is modified through variation, and the
 898.221with each other in almost their whole organisation, yet are not rarely, some of them
 1002.414A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly
 1090.42at all in the several parts of their organisation, and I think this cannot be disputed
 1167.263caverns, close similarity in their organisation and affinities might have been expected
 1197.64mean by this expression that the whole organisation is so tied together during its growth
 1197.589embryo, seriously affects the whole organisation of the adult. The several parts of the
 1227.246to economise in every part of the organisation. If under [page] 148 LAWS OF VARIATION
 1233.115reducing and saving every part of the organisation, as soon as it is rendered superfluous
 1237.599s expression, seems to be a sign of low organisation; the foregoing remark seems connected
 1237.854means that the several parts of the organisation have been but little specialised for
 1257.982come into full play, and thus the organisation is left in a fluctuating condition. But
 1263.910such parts than in other parts of the organisation, which have remained for a much longer
 1279.889more variable than those parts of the organisation which have for a very long period
 1281.354than in other parts of their organisation; compare, for instance, the amount of
 1281.820and uniform as other parts of the organisation; for secondary sexual characters have
 1287.159displayed in the very same parts of the organisation in which the different species of the
 1293.759displayed in the same parts of the organisation,—are all principles closely connected
 1357.1079than those which have their whole organisation more specialised, and are higher in the
 1361.327Variability in the same parts of the organisation has generally been taken advantage of
 1478.826which in every essential part of its organisation, even in its colouring, in the harsh
 1484.259a petrel, but with many parts of its organisation profoundly modified. On the other hand
 1568.302some little direct influence on the organisation; that characters reappear from the law
 1586.1170is that the chief part of the organisation of every being is simply due to
 1986.533recognisable difference in their whole organisation. On the other hand, these cases clearly
 2038.119have remained the same, but the organisation has been disturbed by two different
 2038.609to generation the same compounded organisation, and hence we need not be surprised
 2040.730disturbed, in the other case from the organisation having been disturbed by two
 2060.1208vast periods of time on the whole organisation, in any way which may be for each
 2126.214have had this system and their whole organisation disturbed by being compounded of two
 2155.278parent will have had in its whole organisation much general resemblance to the tapir
 2570.617in a marked and sensible manner the organisation of the more recent and victorious forms
 2624.267felt by many palæontologists, that organisation on the whole has progressed. If it
 3075.980rule, that the less any part of the organisation is concerned with special habits, the
 3077.78trust to resemblances in parts of the organisation, however important [page] 415 CHAP
 3095.623has always failed; for no part of the organisation is universally constant. The importance
 3147.1098better than, other parts of the organisation. We [page] 426 CLASSIFICATION. CHAP
 3203.149each other in the general plan of their organisation. This resemblance is often expressed by
 3211.236of growth other parts of the organisation. In changes of this nature, there will
 3251.59of development generally rises in organisation: I use this expression, though I am
 3251.180to define clearly what is meant by the organisation being higher or lower. But no one
 3261.126apparently having sometimes a higher organisation than the mature animal, into which it
 3345.87to the tendency in every part of the organisation, which has long existed, to be
 3432.94of life, and then nature acts on the organisation, and causes variability. But man can
 3875.11of trees, 361. Eciton, 238. Economy of organisation, 147. Edentata, teeth and hair
3  organisations 
 2038.264For it is scarcely possible that two organisations should be compounded into one, without
 2040.772having been disturbed by two organisations having been compounded into one. It
 3392.577from being compounded of two distinct organisations. This parallelism is supported by
4  organised 
 152.252Multiple, rudimentary, and lowly organised structures variable — Parts developed
 1117.240Multiple, rudimentary, and lowly organised structures variable—Parts developed in
 2412.1388in terrestrial and in more highly organised productions compared with marine and
 3251.1485as either more highly or more lowly organised than they were in the larval condition
21  organism 
 140.487of the same genus — The relation of organism to organism the most important of all
 140.499genus — The relation of organism to organism the most important of all relations
 633.467of the same genus—The relation of organism to organism the most important of all
 633.479same genus—The relation of organism to organism the most important of all relations
 2040.451no explanation is offered why an organism, when placed under unnatural conditions
 2157.403the principle of competition between organism and organism, between child and parent
 2157.416of competition between organism and organism, between child and parent, will render
 2227.82made every year in Europe prove. No organism wholly soft can be preserved. Shells
 2337.109a long succession of ages to adapt an organism to some new and peculiar line of life
 2412.1770of the many all-important relations of organism to organism, that any form which does
 2412.1782all-important relations of organism to organism, that any form which does not become in
 2663.742struggles for life;—the relation of organism to organism being, as I have already
 2663.754for life;—the relation of organism to organism being, as I have already often remarked
 2960.893paramount importance of the relation of organism to organism. I do not deny that there
 2960.905of the relation of organism to organism. I do not deny that there are many and
 3032.1002in mind that the mutual relations of organism to organism are of the highest
 3032.1014the mutual relations of organism to organism are of the highest importance, we can
 3502.1094from each other; for as the relation of organism to organism is the most important of
 3502.1106for as the relation of organism to organism is the most important of all relations
 3574.1121namely, the mutual relation of organism to organism,—the improvement of one
 3574.1133the mutual relation of organism to organism,—the improvement of one being entailing
25  organisms 
 297.237of the garden. I may add, that as some organisms will breed most freely under the most
 562.58commences the study of a group of organisms quite unknown to him, he is at first
 669.28of. The only difference between organisms which annually produce eggs or seeds by
 912.570to be the case. In hermaphrodite organisms which cross only occasionally, and
 922.647the immigration of better adapted organisms, after any physical change, such as of
 2337.297acquired a great advantage over other organisms, a comparatively short time would be
 2408.744There is some reason to believe that organisms, considered high in the scale of nature
 2608.309remains of those infinitely numerous organisms which must have existed long before the
 2637.1165is a most rare case to find a group of organisms confined to any small spot, having
 2663.111as far as we positively know, produces organisms quite like, or, as we see in the case
 2669.667come into play only by bringing organisms into new relations with each other, and
 2699.64the majority of cases, namely, with all organisms which habitually unite for each birth
 2707.101occurred within the period of existing organisms. Edward Forbes insisted that all the
 2787.540day. Hence we may suppose that the organisms now living under the climate of
 2988.565have to compete with different sets of organisms: a plant, for instance, would find the
 3016.174believe from geological evidence that organisms low in the scale within each great
 3016.724namely, that the lower any group of organisms is, the more widely it is apt to range
 3018.62namely, low and slowly-changing organisms ranging more widely than the high,—some
 3038.434world. We can see why whole groups of organisms, as batrachians and terrestrial mammals
 3044.934throughout the world, we find that some organisms differ little, whilst others belonging
 3123.1475seems to have occurred with existing organisms. All the descendants of the genus F
 3167.473we can account for the fact that all organisms, recent and extinct, are included under
 3351.99subordination of group to group in all organisms throughout all time; that the nature of
 3392.253condition. As we continually see that organisms of all kinds are rendered in some
 3774.21of beings, 68. —, adaptation of, to organisms, 139. [page] 493 INDEX. COBITES
149  organs 
 152.86combined with natural selection; organs of flight and of vision
 160.261different from those of their allies — Organs of extreme perfection — Means of
 160.362difficulty — Natura non facit saltum — Organs of small importance — Organs not in all
 160.391saltum — Organs of small importance — Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect
 206.24MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CLASSIFICATION, groups
 208.579at a corresponding age — RUDIMENTARY ORGANS; their origin explained — Summary
 311.641in comparison with the state of these organs in other countries, is another instance
 487.435so slight in internal parts or organs. Man can hardly select, or only with
 532.1393examine internal and important organs, and compare them in many specimens of
 536.408a circle when they state that important organs never vary; for these same authors
 850.120conditions of life, sometimes the male organs and sometimes the female organs become
 850.152male organs and sometimes the female organs become more or less impotent; now if we
 872.689flowers, on the other hand, have their organs of fructification closely enclosed, as
 896.152of an hermaphrodite animal with the organs of reproduction so perfectly enclosed
 998.148physiological division of labour in the organs of the same individual body—a subject
 1117.84combined with natural selection; organs of flight and of vision—Acclimatisation
 1195.138and of the structure of various organs; but that the effects of use and disuse
 1239.185subject of rudimentary and aborted organs; and I will here only add that their
 1257.725to have degenerated. In rudimentary organs, and in those which have been but
 1267.61and that the most abnormally developed organs may be made constant, I can see no
 1309.640than in quite useless or rudimentary organs being, as we all know them to be, thus
 1317.602best evidence is afforded by parts or organs of an important and uniform nature
 1357.76and disuse in weakening and diminishing organs, seem to have been more potent in their
 1357.1151are higher in the scale. Rudimentary organs, from being useless, will be
 1357.1587we have referred to special parts or organs being still variable, because they have
 1380.255could produce, on the one hand, organs of trifling importance, such as the
 1380.372a fly-flapper, and, on the other hand, organs of [page] 172 DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY
 1456.900selection; and this, as far as the organs of flight are concerned, would convert
 1464.611ocean, and had used their incipient organs of flight exclusively, as far as we
 1470.445the land and in the water, until their organs of flight had come to a high stage of
 1494.0and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme perfection and complication
 1496.21formed by natural [page] 187 CHAP. VI. ORGANS OF EXTREME PERFECTION. selection
 1512.21suppose every [page] 189 CHAP. VI. ORGANS OF EXTREME PERFECTION. part of this
 1516.235find out no such case. No doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the
 1522.725by insensible steps. Two distinct organs sometimes perform simultaneously the
 1522.1121In these cases, one of the two organs might with ease be modified and
 1524.339in as an accessory to the auditory organs of certain fish, or, for I do not know
 1526.36page] 191 CHAP. VI. TRANSITIONS OF ORGANS. view is now generally held, a part of
 1530.1076covers of insects, it is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served
 1530.1171have been actually converted into organs of flight. In considering transitions
 1532.30flight. In considering transitions of organs, it is so important to bear in mind the
 1536.1186latter family had originally existed as organs for preventing the ova from being
 1540.200of in the next chapter. The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special
 1540.317conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced; but, as Owen and
 1542.36page] 193 CHAP. VI. TRANSITIONS OF ORGANS. their intimate structure closely
 1546.13of any kind is possible. The electric organs offer another and even more serious
 1546.485natural selection. But if the electric organs had been inherited from one ancient
 1546.733that formerly most fishes had electric organs, which most of their modified
 1546.818have lost. The presence of luminous organs in a few insects, belonging to
 1552.718be so? Why should all the parts and organs of many independent beings, each
 1554.0by the shortest and slowest steps. Organs of little apparent importance.—As
 1556.21difficulty in [page] 195 CHAP. VI. ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE. understanding
 1562.0or to escape from beasts of prey. Organs now of trifling importance have
 1572.21these latter [page] 197 CHAP. VI. ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE. remarks. If
 1582.21stress on our [page] 199 CHAP. VI. ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE. ignorance of the
 1622.589existed, for the homologies of many organs and their intermediate states show that
 1626.114for one function; and two very distinct organs having performed at the same time the
 1630.133though it may well produce parts, organs, and excretions highly useful or even
 1669.936equal force to instincts as to bodily organs. Changes of instinct may sometimes be
 1863.728not only in size, but in their organs of vision, yet connected by some few
 1906.34Pure species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition
 1906.196the other hand, have their reproductive organs functionally impotent, as may be
 1906.321in both plants and animals; though the organs themselves are perfect in structure, as
 2014.74hybrids, which have their reproductive organs in an imperfect condition, is a very
 2014.212species, which have their reproductive organs perfect; yet these two distinct cases
 2038.432relation of the different parts and organs one to another, or to the conditions of
 2731.540uninjured through even the digestive organs of a turkey. In the course of two
 3053.36MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CLASSIFICATION, groups
 3055.559at a corresponding age—RUDIMENTARY ORGANS; their origin explained—Summary. FROM
 3075.1148of the dugong, says, "The generative organs being those which are most remotely
 3075.1369likely in the modifications of these organs to mistake a merely adaptive for an
 3075.1480plants, how remarkable it is that the organs of vegetation, on which their whole
 3075.1617the first main divisions; whereas the organs of reproduction, with their product the
 3081.190the greatest stress on resemblances in organs of high vital or physiological
 3081.295of the classificatory importance of organs which are important is generally, but
 3081.524and this constancy depends on such organs having generally been subjected to less
 3081.1189Brown, who in speaking of certain organs in the Proteaceæ, says their generic
 3087.53will say that rudimentary or atrophied organs are of high physiological or vital
 3087.125or vital importance; yet, undoubtedly, organs in this condition are often of high
 3101.719As in most groups of animals, important organs, such as those for propelling the blood
 3101.975all these, the most important vital organs, are found to offer characters of quite
 3153.581all into the same class. As we find organs of high physiological importance—those
 3153.788value to them; but if these same organs, in another group or section of a group
 3197.1198to use rudimentary and useless organs, or others of trifling physiological
 3203.268or by saying that the several parts and organs in the different species of the class
 3203.888of relative connexion in homologous organs: the parts may change to almost any
 3203.1452great jaws of a beetle?—yet all these organs, serving for such dif- [page] 435 CHAP
 3217.175a class, but of the different parts or organs in the same individual. Most
 3217.1055other animals, and in flowers, that organs, which when mature [page] 437 CHAP
 3229.360wonder at discovering in such parts or organs, a certain degree of fundamental
 3233.559a long course of descent, primordial organs of any kind—vertebræ in the one case
 3239.63been casually remarked that certain organs in the individual, which when mature
 3251.977is, to search by their well-developed organs of sense, and to reach by their active
 3251.1221legs are now converted into prehensile organs; they again obtain a well-constructed
 3295.1684fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, &c
 3303.23having super- [page] 450 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. vened at a very early age
 3309.35Rudimentary, atrophied, or aborted organs.—Organs or parts in this strange
 3309.43atrophied, or aborted organs.—Organs or parts in this strange condition
 3309.492limbs. Some of the cases of rudimentary organs are extremely curious; for instance
 3311.35page] 451 CHAP. XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. in the beaks of certain embryonic
 3315.27together! The meaning of rudimentary organs is often quite unmistakeable: for
 3315.361rudiments represent wings. Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality
 3315.535many instances are on record of these organs having become well developed in full
 3319.23of a stigma [page] 452 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. supported on the style
 3323.12instances could be given. Rudimentary organs in the individuals of the same species
 3323.373moths in certain groups. Rudimentary organs may be utterly aborted; and this
 3325.41is an important fact that rudimentary organs, such as teeth in the upper jaws of
 3327.35page] 453 CHAP. XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. rule, that a rudimentary part or
 3331.63facts with respect to rudimentary organs. In reflecting on them, every one must
 3331.210tells us plainly that most parts and organs are exquisitely adapted for certain
 3331.329that these rudimentary or atrophied organs, are imperfect and useless. In works on
 3331.404In works on natural history rudimentary organs are generally said to have been created
 3331.882for the presence of rudimentary organs, by supposing that they serve to
 3333.23unknown laws [page] 454 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. of growth, but in order
 3337.67modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is simple. We have plenty of cases of
 3337.124We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions,—as the
 3337.559light on the origin of rudimentary organs in a state of nature, further than by
 3337.840to the gradual reduction of various organs, until they have become rudimentary,—as
 3341.35its [page] 455 CHAP. XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. former functions. An organ, when
 3343.536greater relative size of rudimentary organs in the embryo, and their lesser
 3345.31organ. As the presence of rudimentary organs is thus due to the tendency in every
 3345.363physiological importance. Rudimentary organs may be compared with the letters in a
 3345.624we may conclude that the existence of organs in a rudimentary, imperfect, and
 3351.541importance, or, as in rudimentary organs, of no importance; the wide opposition
 3357.64pattern displayed in the homologous organs, to whatever purpose applied, of the
 3359.470of a class of the homologous parts or organs, though fitted in the adult members for
 3359.784and bearing in mind, that when organs are reduced in size, either from disuse
 3359.1031the occurrence of rudimentary organs and their final abortion, present to us
 3359.1236characters and of rudimentary organs in classification is intelligible, on
 3378.271to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been
 3378.799each good of its kind,—that all organs and instincts are, in ever so slight a
 3392.101first crosses, for their reproductive organs are more or less functionally impotent
 3392.177impotent; whereas in first crosses the organs on both sides are in a perfect
 3424.279the simplest and the most perfect organs; it cannot be pretended that we know
 3518.586of the gradual modification of parts or organs, which were alike in the early
 3524.79on this view the meaning of rudimentary organs. But disuse and selection will
 3524.1325taken pains to reveal, by rudimentary organs and by homologous structures, her
 3546.534wide intervals between existing orders. Organs in a rudimentary condition plainly show
 3560.233characters, rudimentary and aborted organs, &c., will cease to be metaphorical
 3566.904have long been inherited. Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to
 3881.46young birds escaping from, 87. Electric organs, 192. Elephant, rate of increase
 3920.12to fresh water, 107. —, electric organs of, 192. —, ganoid, living in fresh
 3968.17on balancement, 147. ———on homologous organs, 434. ———, Isidore, on variability of
 4062.17succession, 338. —, on homologous organs, 438. —, on the development of aphis
 4175.26mules, 165. Matteuchi on the electric organs of rays, 193. Matthiola, reciprocal
 4237.0apelles, 135. Orchis, pollen of, 193, Organs of extreme perfection
 4250.15bladder of fishes, 191. —, on electric organs, 192. ——, on fossil horse of La Plata
 4256.18of the dugong, 414. ——, on homologous organs, 435. ——, on the metamorphosis of
 4362.33Rodents, blind, 137. Rudimentary organs, 450. Rudiments important for
1  oriental 
 5396.57D.) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of an Oriental Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and
2  orifice 
 381.647length of the eyelids, of the orifice of the nostrils, of the tongue (not
 1530.407which we swallow has to pass over the orifice of the trachea, with some risk of
1  orifices 
 375.450elongated eyelids, very large external orifices to the nostrils, and a wide gape of
54  origin 
 4.0 ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES ___ DARWIN. LONDON
 30.0break] [page break] [page i] ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. [page ii
 69.4October 1st, 1859. [page iii] ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL
 126.180between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more
 126.276Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin — Principle of Selection anciently
 126.389and Unconscious Selection — Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions
 166.61with habits, but different in their origin — Instincts graduated — Aphides and
 166.158variable — Domestic instincts, their origin — Natural instincts of the cuckoo
 208.593age — RUDIMENTARY ORGANS; their origin explained — Summary
 228.7part of the Volume. [page 1] ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
 234.282seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries
 240.120general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. Last year he sent to me a
 250.19excellent judgment. In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable
 272.84as yet unexplained in regard to the origin of species and varieties, if he makes
 283.369and Unconscious Selection—Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions
 343.1447empirical. Moreover, on the view of the origin of genera which I shall presently give
 353.260on by those who believe in the multiple origin [page] 18 VARIATION. CHAP. I. of our
 365.20duck and rabbit. The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from
 393.734yet on the hypothesis of the multiple origin of our pigeons, it must be assumed that
 419.30aviary. I have discussed the probable origin of domestic pigeons at some, yet quite
 499.106namely that we know nothing about the origin or history of any of our domestic
 499.250hardly be said to have had a definite origin. A man preserves and breeds from an
 515.17UNDER DOMESTICATION. To sum up on the origin of our Domestic Races of animals and
 515.861has played an important part in the origin of our domestic productions. When in
 1183.281too far, on account of the probable origin of some of our domestic animals from
 1189.820most of these varieties are of recent origin, they cannot owe their constitutional
 1442.7and intermittent record. On the origin and transitions of organic beings with
 1558.18LITTLE IMPORTANCE. understanding the origin of simple parts, of which the
 1566.433swim-bladders betray their aquatic origin, may perhaps be thus accounted for. A
 1584.264light can apparently be thrown on the origin of these differences, chiefly through
 1649.393that I have nothing to do with the origin of the primary mental powers, any more
 1657.237action is performed, but not of its origin. How unconsciously many habitual
 1723.188and this perhaps explains the origin of a singular instinct in the allied
 1924.667already lessened by their hybrid origin. I am strengthened in this conviction
 1956.1083distinct species. On this view of the origin of many of our domestic animals, we
 2149.1092or indirect evidence regarding their origin, it would not have been possible to
 3055.573age—RUDIMENTARY ORGANS; their origin explained—Summary. FROM the first dawn
 3133.121and would give the filiation and origin of each tongue. In confirmation of
 3135.332as we have seen with pigeons. The origin of the existence of groups subordinate
 3337.45view of descent with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is simple. We
 3337.537any of these cases throw light on the origin of rudimentary organs in a state of
 3554.49views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are
 3580.231gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Authors of the
 4170.5formation, 303. —, insular, 393. Man, origin of races of, 199. Manatee, rudimentary
 4199.18Monocanthus, 424. Mons, Van, on the origin of fruit-trees, 29, 39. Moquin-Tandon
 4293.26toes, 12. ——, breeds described, and origin of, 20. —, breeds of, how produced
 4312.13in the United States, 85. Pointer dog, origin of, 35. —, habits of, 213. Poison not
 4386.28principle not of recent origin, 33 —, unconscious, 34. ——, natural
 4546.17W. Wading-birds, 386. Wallace, Mr., on origin of species, 2. ——, on law of
 5004.49J. D.) History of the Sikhs. From the Origin of the Nation to the Battle of the
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 5660.38History of British India from its Origin till the Peace of 1783. Post 8vo. 3s
 5860.99under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Origin, Descent, and Present State of every
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 325.128whether it may not be due to the same original cause acting on both; but when amongst
 469.420have been purely bred from the original stock of Mr. Bakewell for upwards of
 735.508habits, and constitution, that the original proportions of a mixed stock could be
 772.1111be better filled up, if some of the original inhabitants were in some manner
 1038.354diverging in character from their original stocks, without either having given off
 1046.652marked by capital letters) of our original genus, may for a long period continue
 1048.475of descent their predecessors and their original parent. For it should be remembered
 1048.824state of a species, as well as the original parent-species itself, will generally
 1056.37But we may go further than this. The original species of our genus were supposed to
 1056.995A) and (I), but likewise some of the original species which were most nearly related
 1056.1083to their parents. Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring
 1056.1275least closely related to the other nine original species, has transmitted descendants to
 1060.50in our diagram descended from the original eleven species, will now be fifteen in
 1060.299that between the most different of the original eleven species. The new species
 1062.81sub-genera or even genera. But as the original species (I) differed largely from (A
 1062.174nearly at the extreme points of the original genus, the six descendants from (I
 1062.491consideration), which connected the original species (A) and (I), have all become
 1078.862have descended from two species of the original genus; and these two species are
 1281.639will be granted. The cause of the original variability of secondary sexual
 1400.996and has supplanted and exterminated its original parent and all the transitional
 1500.294collateral descendants from the same original parent-form, in order to see what
 2976.194of inheritance still betraying their original birthplace. Many analogous facts could
 2984.735receive immigrants from the same original source, or from each other. But this
 3211.327be little or no tendency to modify the original pattern, or to transpose parts. The
 4802.57of Sir Francis Drake. With numerous Original Letters. Post 8vo. 2s. 6d. BEES AND
 4928.109Illustrated, with Wood Engravings, from original Drawings by PERCIVAL SKELTON. Fcap.4to
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 389.1259exist in the countries where they were originally domesticated, and yet be unknown to
 1056.415diffused species, so that they must originally have had some advantage over most of
 1179.44believe that our domestic animals were originally chosen by uncivilised man because they
 1418.1205sooner than the forms which they originally linked together. For any form existing
 1424.1342breed; and thus the two breeds, which originally existed in greater numbers, will come
 1456.1112we perhaps see traces of an apparatus originally constructed for gliding through the air
 1524.129the highly important fact that an organ originally constructed for one purpose, namely
 1536.702doubt that little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which
 1536.1164the branchiæ in this latter family had originally existed as organs for preventing the
 1606.46look at the sting of the bee, as having originally existed in a remote progenitor as a
 1606.266its present purpose, with the poison originally adapted to cause galls subsequently
 1661.148then the resemblance between what originally was a habit and an instinct becomes so
 1703.1210of the dog and cat which no doubt was originally instinctive in them, in the same way as
 1757.240their nests, it is possible that pupæ originally stored as food might become developed
 1761.95them-the habit of collecting pupæ originally for food might by natural selection be
 2671.138distant quarters of the world, must originally have proceeded from the same source, as
 2711.933of sunken continents;—if they had originally existed as mountain-ranges on the land
 3123.1732its proper intermediate position; for F originally was intermediate in character between A
 3592.479with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
11  originated 
 357.388it show, but that some of our breeds originated there, four or five thousand years ago
 365.853admit that many domestic breeds have originated in Europe; for whence could they have
 622.836existed as varieties, and have thus originated: whereas, these analogies are utterly
 1498.176us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts
 1568.132very little importance, and which have originated from quite secondary causes
 1663.582complex and wonderful instincts have originated. As modifications of corporeal
 1757.43what steps the instinct of F. sanguinea originated I will not pretend to conjecture. But
 1833.173see how an instinct could possibly have originated; cases, in which no intermediate
 1873.184each other and from their parents, has originated. We can see how useful their production
 1952.17be highly fertile. A doctrine which originated with Pallas, has been [page
 2556.935important character of length of beak originated earlier than short-beaked tumblers
1  origin—instincts 
 1647.61with habits, but different in their origin—Instincts graduated—Aphides and ants—Instincts
1  origin—natural 
 1647.150variable—Domestic instincts, their origin—Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and
1  origin—principle 
 283.262Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin—Principle of Selection anciently followed, its
1  orleans 
 5202.73the British Army at Washington and New Orleans. Post 8vo. 2s. 6d. —— Story of the
1  ornament 
 824.146but differ in structure, colour, or ornament, such differences have been mainly
1  ornamental 
 828.622which can hardly be either useful or ornamental to this bird;—indeed, had the tuft
2  ornithologist 
 383.77might be chosen, which if shown to an ornithologist, and he were told that they were wild
 383.240Moreover, I do not believe that any ornithologist would place [page] 23 CHAP. I
2  ornithologists 
 389.1306domesticated, and yet be unknown to ornithologists; and this, considering their size
 552.222zoologists. Several most experienced ornithologists consider our British red grouse as only
5  ornithorhynchus 
 940.634forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils
 1108.280we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosiren, which in some small
 3089.669or feathers, in the Vertebrata. If the Ornithorhynchus had been covered with feathers instead
 3173.907again implies extinction. The genera Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, for example, would not
 4241.22homologous, 434. —, rudiments of, 450. Ornithorhynchus, 107, 416. Ostrich not capable of
1  orthospermous 
 1217.494in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the exterior flowers and
1  oscillating 
 2608.584enormous period extended, and where our oscillating continents now stand they have stood
1  oscillation 
 2249.647certainly deposited during a downward oscillation of level, and thus gained considerable
13  oscillations 
 934.634areas, though now continuous, owing to oscillations of level, will often have recently
 942.261area, which will probably undergo many oscillations of level, and which consequently will
 2219.187estimate. On the other hand, during oscillations of level, which we know this area has
 2243.214first upraised and during subsequent oscillations of level. Such thick and extensive
 2251.80each area has undergone numerous slow oscillations of level, and apparently these
 2251.124of level, and apparently these oscillations have affected wide spaces. Consequently
 2321.303of subsidence would be interrupted by oscillations of level, and that slight climatal
 2379.61been at least partially upheaved by the oscillations of level, which we may fairly conclude
 2379.461existed, subjected no doubt to great oscillations of level, since the earliest silurian
 2379.693the great archipelagoes still areas of oscillations of level, and the continents areas of
 2379.905formed by a preponderance, during many oscillations of level, of the force of elevation
 2707.874that we have abundant evidence of great oscillations of level in our continents; but not of
 2789.159though subjected to large, but partial oscillations of level, I am strongly inclined to
1  osculant 
 3173.472modified, will give to us our so-called osculant or aberrant groups. The more aberrant
1  osteology 
 5870.98substance of the course of Lectures on Osteology and Palæontology of the class Mammalia
10  ostrich 
 166.200Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees — Slave-making ants
 673.96condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country
 1141.1065of prey, has been caused by disuse. The ostrich indeed inhabits continents and is
 1145.60that the early progenitor of the ostrich had habits like those of a bustard, and
 1462.220like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like
 1647.190origin—Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees—Slave-making ants
 1723.634This instinct, however, of the American ostrich has not as yet been perfected; for a
 2657.792by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata
 2657.895of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and
 4241.49of, 450. Ornithorhynchus, 107, 416. Ostrich not capable of flight, 134. —, habit of
2  ostriches 
 1723.241instinct in the allied group of ostriches. For several hen ostriches, at least in
 1723.268group of ostriches. For several hen ostriches, at least in the case of the American
1  oswald 
 940.75that the flora of Madeira, according to Oswald Heer, resembles the extinct tertiary
755  other 
 132.331closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges
 172.271a special endowment, but incidental on other differences — Causes of the sterility
 186.370affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species — On the state of
 250.230geological succession, and other such facts, might come to the
 250.371but had descended, like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless, such a
 250.1344to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account
 256.274coadaptations of organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of
 258.364I been disappointed; in this and in all other perplexing cases I have invariably
 272.1166genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the
 285.204generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one
 291.827to be far more susceptible than any other part of the organisation, to the action
 295.652under confinement; and when, on the other hand, we see individuals, though taken
 305.105sometimes differ considerably from each other, though both the young and the parents
 311.651with the state of these organs in other countries, is another instance of the
 317.713almost certainly unconsciously modify other parts of the structure, owing to the
 319.427sub-varieties differ slightly from each other. The whole organisation seems to have
 327.309to its grandfather or grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a
 331.262stage. But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has
 343.119that, although differing from each other, and from the other species of the same
 343.139differing from each other, and from the other species of the same genus, in several
 343.574of the same species differ from each other in the same manner as, only in most
 343.911judges as mere varieties, and by other competent judges as the descendants of
 343.1179domestic races do not differ from each other in characters of generic value. I think
 349.482wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive
 351.436and whether it would endure other climates? Has the little variability of
 351.652domestication? I cannot doubt that if other animals and plants, equal in number to
 359.140state that, from geographical and other considerations, I think it highly
 363.112of which differ considerably from each other in structure, I do not doubt that they
 375.1649utter a very different coo from the other breeds. The fantail has thirty or even
 379.47the oil-gland is quite aborted. Several other less distinct breeds might have been
 381.951length of wing and tail to each other and to the body; the relative length of
 381.1516to differ to a slight degree from each other. Altogether at least a score of
 389.294or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. As
 389.423belief are in some degree applicable in other cases, I will here briefly give them
 389.1059sub-species, only two or three other species of rock-pigeons are known; and
 395.75great weight, and applicable in several other cases, is, that the above-specified
 395.296yet are certainly highly abnormal in other parts of their structure: we may look
 399.517marks do not occur together in any other species of the whole family. Now, in
 399.1706like the rock-pigeon, although no other existing species is thus coloured and
 411.238certain respects, as compared with all other Columbidæ, though so like in most other
 411.278other Columbidæ, though so like in most other respects to the rock-pigeon; the blue
 419.402to the many species of finches, or other large groups of birds, in nature. One
 423.532the seeds of the same tree. Innumerable other examples could be given. The
 423.1358of nature being lineal descendants of other species? Selection.—Let us now briefly
 429.939cock, so pertinacious in battle, with other breeds so little quarrelsome, with
 435.526of agriculturalists than almost any other individual, and who was himself a very
 449.898some one point do not differ at all in other points; this is hardly ever, perhaps
 449.1253will produce races differing from each other chiefly in these characters. It may be
 471.246carefully preserved during famines and other accidents, to which savages are so
 477.282rose, pelargonium, dahlia, and other plants, when compared with the older
 483.163the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilised
 485.379better in the one country than in the other, and thus by a process of "natural
 491.851Java fantail, or like individuals of other and distinct breeds, in which as many
 505.575they never can be improved." On the other hand, nurserymen, from raising large
 511.194a country which is already stocked with other races. In this respect enclosure of the
 511.780when killed they serve for food. On the other hand, cats, from their nocturnal
 511.1024are almost always imported from some other country, often from islands. Although I
 524.321closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges
 536.672will ever be found: but under any other point of view many instances assuredly
 538.646some few exceptions, polymorphic in other countries, and likewise, judging from
 542.121which are so closely similar to some other forms, or are so closely linked to them
 542.678he treats the one as a variety of the other, ranking the most common, but sometimes
 542.773described, as the species, and the other as the variety. But cases of great
 548.1237which differ very slightly from each other, have been ranked by one eminent
 552.885of species that they are ranked by other highly-competent judges as good and
 558.177being specifically distinct. On the other hand, they are united by many
 566.276knowledge of analogical variation in other groups and in other countries, by which
 566.296variation in other groups and in other countries, by which to correct his
 566.790admission will often be disputed by other naturalists. When, moreover, he comes
 568.368These differences blend into each other in an insensible series; and a series
 578.169of individuals closely resembling each other, and that it does not essentially
 582.997divergence of character," and other questions, hereafter to be discussed
 588.365necessarily have to struggle with the other inhabitants of the country, the species
 590.196all those in the smaller genera on the other side, a somewhat larger number of the
 596.680still favourable to variation. On the other hand, if we look at each species as a
 598.249and those of the smaller genera on the other side, and it has invariably proved to
 604.10and this holds good. There are other relations between the species of large
 608.890varieties, for they differ from each other by a less than usual amount of
 610.62of the large genera are related to each other, in the same manner as the varieties of
 610.144of any one species are related to each other. No naturalist pretends that all the
 610.237a genus are equally distinct from each other; they may generally be divided into sub
 610.430like satellites around certain other species. And what are varieties but
 610.515of forms, unequally related to each other, and clustered round certain forms—that
 610.765varieties, when compared with each other or with their parent-species, is much
 616.13between species. There is one other point which seems to me worth notice
 616.383which are very closely allied to other species, and in so far resemble
 616.670he considers as so closely allied to other species as to be of doubtful value
 622.584species. Species very closely allied to other species apparently have restricted
 641.196most cases obviously differ from each other far more than do the varieties of the
 641.363genera, and which differ from each other more than do the species of the same
 641.738in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature
 647.330may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a
 651.168with the plants of the same and other kinds which already clothe the ground
 651.263is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched
 651.555truly be said to struggle with each other. As the missletoe is disseminated by
 651.688metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt
 651.802its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which
 651.862several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience sake the general
 665.132surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants, have been introduced from
 681.440so incomparably better known than any other animal. This subject has been ably
 681.1057in ground already thickly stocked with other plants. Seedlings, also, are destroyed
 681.1261where there could be no choking from other plants, I marked all the seedlings of
 685.199by four) nine species perished from the other species being allowed to grow up freely
 687.175food, but the serving as prey to other animals, which determines the average
 687.661animals are now annually killed. On the other hand, in some cases, as with the
 693.833fully stocked with inhabitants, the other species will decrease. When we travel
 693.982that the cause lies quite as much in other species being favoured, as in this one
 695.55in main part indirectly by favouring other species, we may clearly see in the
 701.7the parasite and its prey. On the other hand, in many cases, a large stock of
 701.605it is to get seed from a few wheat or other such plants in a garden; I have in this
 701.1217exist together, and thus save each other from utter destruction. I should add
 719.610of the heartsease (Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower. From
 719.887red clover (Trifolium pratense), as other bees cannot reach the nectar. Hence I
 729.162and insect-between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey
 729.256to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees or their seeds and
 729.318or their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants which first clothed the ground
 731.222strictly be said to struggle with each other for existence, as in the case of
 731.931in a few years quite supplant the other varieties. To keep up a mixed stock of
 735.189mountain-varieties will starve out other mountain-varieties, so that they cannot
 737.263they come into competition with each other, than between species of distinct
 737.821will supplant another, and so in other cases. We can dimly see why the
 741.205yet often hidden manner, to that of all other organic beings, with which it comes
 741.810land being already thickly clothed by other plants; so that the seeds may be widely
 741.1001for diving, allows it to compete with other aquatic insects, to hunt for its own
 741.1083prey, and to escape serving as prey to other animals. The store of nutriment laid up
 741.1213sight to have no sort of relation to other plants. But from the strong growth of
 741.1482young seedling, whilst struggling with other plants growing vigorously all around
 766.682relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of
 766.836to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each
 770.216and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any
 778.1431are now so perfectly adapted to each other and to the physical conditions under
 796.1012peaches far more than those with other coloured flesh. If, with all the aids
 796.1228the trees would have to struggle with other trees and with a host of enemies, such
 802.34IV. the good of the being, will cause other modifications, often of the most
 804.1581ensure that modifications consequent on other modifications at a different period of
 810.1458shell being known to vary like every other structure. Sexual Selection.—Inasmuch
 812.273sex in its functional relations to the other sex, or in relation to wholly different
 816.1286bear wounds from the huge mandibles of other males. The war is, perhaps, severest
 824.308generations, some slight advantage over other [page] 90 NATURAL SELECTION. CHAP. IV
 830.443country increased in numbers, or that other prey had decreased in numbers, during
 830.804to master their prey at this or at some other period of the year, when they might be
 830.870when they might be compelled to prey on other animals. I can see no more reason to
 836.1559like form, which pursues deer, and the other more bulky, with shorter legs, which
 846.643of pollen, and a rudimentary pistil; other holly-trees bear only female flowers
 852.734by us, might profit a bee or other insect, so that an individual so
 856.277constructed proboscis. On the other hand, I have found by experiment that
 856.791either simultaneously or one after the other, modified and adapted in the most
 856.854in the most perfect manner to each other, by the continued preservation of
 864.708animals, all insects, and some other large groups of animals, pair for each
 866.320fertility to the offspring; and on the other hand, that close interbreeding
 872.140such as the following, which on any other view are inexplicable. Every hybridizer
 872.666almost inevitable. Many flowers, on the other hand, have their organs of
 872.1355and not carry pollen from one to the other, to the great good, as I believe, of
 878.94pistil, or slowly move one after the other towards it, the contrivance seems
 878.547or varieties are planted near each other, it is hardly possible to raise pure
 878.645do they naturally cross. In many other cases, far from there being any aids
 878.1476by bees, seeds freely. In very many other cases, though there be no special
 882.502many cases be mutually useless to each other! How simply are these facts explained
 884.64the cabbage, radish, onion, and of some other plants, be allowed to seed near each
 884.107plants, be allowed to seed near each other, a large majority, as I have found, of
 884.305different varieties growing near each other, and of these only 78 were true to
 884.516six stamens, but by those of the many other flowers on the same plant. How, then
 890.632their sexes more often separated than other plants, I find to be the case in this
 890.839the result was as I anticipated. On the other hand, Dr. Hooker has recently informed
 898.193though agreeing closely with each other in almost their whole organisation, yet
 898.380do occasionally intercross with other individuals, the difference between
 908.984there will be intercrossing with the other individuals of the same species on the
 912.1025might subsequently slowly spread to other districts. On the above principle
 912.1189as the chance of intercrossing with other varieties is thus lessened. Even in
 948.579the mutual relations of many of the other inhabitants being thus disturbed
 948.950selection. I do not believe so. On the other hand, I do believe that natural
 960.221plants are crowded together than in any other quarter of the world, some foreign
 964.641into the severest competition with each other. Consequently, each new variety or
 968.78new breeds of cattle, sheep, and other animals, and varieties of flowers, take
 970.373them—yet certainly differ from each other far less than do good and distinct
 976.1405to diverge in character both from each other and from their common parent. But how
 982.421on places at present occupied by other animals: some of them, for instance
 982.1472selected which differed from each other in at all the same manner as distinct
 982.1563and genera of grasses differ from each other, a greater number of individual plants
 986.319when rendered very distinct from each other, take the rank of species. The truth
 988.642much these plants differed from each other. So it is with the plants and insects
 988.1214into the closest competition with each other, the advantages of diversification of
 988.1385the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule
 996.295to have gained an advantage over the other natives; and we may, I think, at least
 1002.653groups differing but little from each other, and feebly representing, as Mr
 1004.282to encroach on places occupied by other beings. Now let us see how this
 1006.200species are supposed to resemble each other in unequal degrees, as is so generally
 1024.338A) more numerous than most of the other inhabitants of the same country; they
 1026.425namely m2 and s2, differing from each other, and more considerably from their
 1032.327unoccupied or not perfectly occupied by other beings; and this will depend on
 1040.248but perhaps unequally, from each other and from their common parent. If we
 1046.598rise to new varieties and species. The other nine species (marked by capital letters
 1048.299advantage in the struggle for life over other forms, there will be a constant
 1048.629which are most nearly related to each other in habits, constitution, and structure
 1056.98genus were supposed to resemble each other in unequal degrees, as is so generally
 1056.229related to B, C, and D, than to the other species; and species (I) more to G, H
 1056.467had some advantage over most of the other species of the genus. Their modified
 1056.1264which were least closely related to the other nine original species, has transmitted
 1060.374moreover, will be allied to each other in a widely different manner. Of the
 1060.740m14, will be nearly related one to the other, but from having diverged at the first
 1060.864will be widely different from the other five species, and may constitute a sub
 1070.268In this case, its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a
 1080.242one form having some advantage over other forms in the struggle for existence, it
 1090.358relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of existence
 1090.1460males alone, in their struggles with other males. Whether natural selection has
 1098.698and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group, in the
 1102.87clustered round points, and these round other points, and so on in almost endless
 1104.528of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life
 1104.1038branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches; so with the species which
 1125.1093though not elsewhere fleshy. Several other such cases could be given. The fact of
 1131.31into the zone of habitation of other species, often acquiring in a very
 1131.822colours for a warm sea; but that this other shell became bright-coloured by
 1135.136as can well be conceived; and, on the other hand, of different varieties being
 1147.359described as not having them. In some other genera they are present, but in a
 1147.720and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, by the long-continued effects
 1153.864not being blown out to sea; and, on the other hand, those beetles which most readily
 1165.61size of the eyes; whereas with all the other inhabitants of the caves, disuse by
 1167.522from the general resemblance of the other inhabitants of North America and Europe
 1167.1314selection will often have effected other changes, such as an increase in the
 1167.1536animals of America, affinities to the other inhabitants of that continent, and in
 1171.226of the blind cave-animals to the other inhabitants of the two continents on
 1171.482known relationship of most of their other productions. Far from feeling any
 1177.327in their ranges by the competition of other organic beings quite as much as, or
 1183.95an argument that a large proportion of other animals, now in a state of nature
 1183.626and now have a far wider range than any other rodent, living free under the cold
 1189.265must, I think, be due to habit. On the other hand, I can see no reason to doubt that
 1197.230accumulated through natural selection, other parts become modified. This is a very
 1211.775by drawing nourishment from certain other parts of the flower had caused their
 1219.311after thousands of generations, some other and independent modification; and these
 1225.217nature is forced to economise on the other side." I think this holds true to a
 1225.1306same process or by disuse, and, on the other hand, the actual withdrawal of
 1227.100have been advanced, and likewise some other facts, may be merged under a more
 1231.378examining cirripedes, and of which many other instances could be given: namely, that
 1231.670Proteolepas: for the carapace in all other cirripedes consists of the three highly
 1233.202without by any means causing some other part to be largely developed in a
 1245.1248manner in comparison with the other species of the same genus. The rule
 1249.1273the varieties differ more from each other in the characters of these important
 1249.1331of these important valves than do other species of distinct genera. As birds
 1257.340groups of species have descended from other species, and have been modified through
 1261.38variability of all kinds, and, on the other hand, the power of steady selection to
 1261.578to us, more to one sex than to the other, generally to the male sex, as with the
 1263.123in any one species, compared with the other species of the same genus, we may
 1263.891more variability in such parts than in other parts of the organisation, which have
 1263.1139to reversion and variability on the other hand, will in the [page] 154 LAWS OF
 1267.439comes to be no more variable than any other structure. It is only in those cases in
 1275.147which differs from the same part in other independently-created species of the
 1275.698the species of a genus resemble each other, and in which they differ from the
 1275.755they differ from the species of some other genus, are called generic characters
 1279.509should vary at the present day. On the other hand, the points in which species
 1279.561the points in which species differ from other species of the same genus, are called
 1281.60present subject, I will make only two other remarks. I think it will be admitted
 1281.269of the same group differ from each other more widely in their secondary sexual
 1281.333secondary sexual characters, than in other parts of their organisation; compare
 1281.801rendered as constant and uniform as other parts of the organisation; for
 1285.449in their sexual characters, than in other parts of their structure. It is a
 1287.238of the same genus differ from each other. Of this fact I will give in
 1291.145two sexes of the same species to each other, or to fit the males and females to
 1291.243of life, or the males to struggle with other males for the possession of the females
 1305.192has been crossed only once by some other breed, the offspring occasionally show
 1311.280of its characters another species; this other species being on my view only a well
 1315.948variation) which already occur in some other members of the same group. And this
 1317.154mocking, as it were, some of the other species of the same genus. A
 1317.268given of forms intermediate between two other forms, which themselves must be
 1317.509assumed some of the characters of the other, so as to produce the intermediate form
 1345.342to that of the general colouring of the other species of the genus. The appearance of
 1345.451by any change of form or by any other new character. We see this tendency to
 1345.786a bluish colour, with certain bars and other marks; and when any breed assumes by
 1345.876variation a bluish tint, these bars and other marks invariably reappear; but without
 1345.925invariably reappear; but without any other change of form or character. When the
 1351.257so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has
 1351.483stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus. To admit this
 1357.625developed; and there are very many other correlations of growth, the nature of
 1361.847variable in a much higher degree than other parts; for variation is a long
 1365.396earth are enabled to struggle with each other, and the best adapted to survive
 1378.122why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations
 1380.360serves as a fly-flapper, and, on the other hand, organs of [page
 1392.267its own less improved parent or other less-favoured forms with which it comes
 1392.466at each species as descended from some other unknown form, both the parent and all
 1400.500as the one becomes rarer and rarer, the other becomes more and more frequent, till
 1400.564frequent, till the one replaces the other. But if we compare these species where
 1400.679as absolutely distinct from each other in every detail of structure as are
 1412.535immensely in numbers, were it not for other competing species; that nearly all
 1412.727related in the most important manner to other organic beings, we must see that the
 1412.923but in large part on the presence of other species, on which it depends, or by
 1418.720when varieties intermediate between two other forms occur, they are much rarer
 1418.905conclude that varieties linking two other varieties together have generally
 1424.1420will come into close contact with each other, without the interposition of the
 1430.401old ones acting and reacting on each other. So that, in any one region and at any
 1446.44the frozen waters, and preys like other polecats on mice and land animals. If a
 1448.12have very little weight. Here, as on other occasions, I lie under a heavy
 1450.973the climate and vegetation change, let other competing rodents or new beasts of prey
 1456.420now connect the Galeopithecus with the other Lemuridæ, yet I can see no difficulty
 1464.688as we know, to escape being devoured by other fish? When we see any structure highly
 1470.552given them a decided advantage over other animals in the battle for life. Hence
 1472.946to another, like a kestrel, and at other times standing stationary on the margin
 1478.127both of their own species and of the other species of the same genus, we might
 1484.300profoundly modified. On the other hand, the acutest observer by examining
 1486.493on the surface of the sea. On the other hand, grebes and coots are eminently
 1492.444and thus gain an advantage over some other inhabitant of the country, it will
 1502.107coated with pigment, and without any other mechanism; and from this low stage
 1502.468there is a lens-shaped swelling. In other crustaceans the transparent cones which
 1506.433not more than in the case of many other structures) in believing that natural
 1514.175placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer
 1522.1265the process of modification by the other organ; and then this other organ might
 1522.1292by the other organ; and then this other organ might be modified for some other
 1522.1331other organ might be modified for some other and quite distinct purpose, or be quite
 1536.317Balanidæ or sessile cirripedes, on the other hand, have no ovigerous frena, the eggs
 1536.591homologous with the branchiæ of the other family; indeed, they graduate into each
 1536.637family; indeed, they graduate into each other. Therefore I do not doubt that little
 1546.644have been specially related to each other. Nor does geology at all lead to the
 1546.925offers a parallel case of difficulty. Other cases could be given; for instance in
 1560.851and existence of cattle and other animals in South America absolutely
 1568.751has primarily arisen from the above or other unknown causes, it may at first have
 1586.711of one part will often have entailed on other parts diversified changes of no direct
 1586.874from correlation of growth, or from other unknown cause, may reappear from the
 1592.319structures for the direct injury of other species, as we see in the fang of the
 1596.30CAN DO. sited in the living bodies of other insects. If it could be proved that any
 1596.840not space here to enter on this and other such cases. Natural selection will
 1600.106as, or slightly more perfect than, the other inhabitants of the same country with
 1604.484may easily err on both sides, that some other contrivances are less perfect. Can we
 1606.844useless to the community for any other end, and which are ultimately
 1610.379the flowers of the orchis and of many other plants are fertilised through insect
 1618.137of life could not graduate into each other; that a bat, for instance, could not
 1626.224been perfected whilst aided by the other, must often have largely facilitated
 1649.543the diversities of instinct and of the other mental qualities of animals within the
 1651.268to migrate and to lay her eggs in other birds' nests. An action, which we
 1657.447Habits easily become associated with other habits, and with certain periods of
 1657.590constant throughout life. Several other points of resemblance between instincts
 1669.1190c.; in which case either one or the other instinct might be preserved by natural
 1675.1471perfect; but as details on this and other such points are not indispensable, they
 1681.591the sight of fear of the same enemy in other animals. But fear of man is slowly
 1689.607will sometimes point and even back other dogs the very first time that they are
 1701.142which will stand and hunt best. On the other hand, habit alone in some cases has
 1703.768domestic animals. How rarely, on the other hand, do our civilised dogs, even when
 1703.1107by inheritance our dogs. On the other hand, young chickens have lost, wholly
 1709.405such inherited mental changes; in other cases compulsory habit has done nothing
 1711.290leads the cuckoo to lay her eggs in other birds' nests; the slave-making instinct
 1717.722cuckoo occasionally lays her eggs in other birds' nests; but I hear on the high
 1717.932known occasionally to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. Now let us suppose that
 1717.1702turn would be apt to lay their eggs in other birds' nests, and thus be successful in
 1721.61that, according to Dr. Gray and to some other observers, the European cuckoo has not
 1723.51habit of birds laying their eggs in other birds' nests, either of the same or of
 1725.75lay their eggs in the nests of bees of other kinds. This case is more remarkable
 1725.460wasp-like insects) are parasitic on other species; and M. Fabre has lately shown
 1731.440courageous in capturing slaves, do no other work. They are incapable of making
 1731.1239facts? If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been
 1737.63indebted for information on this and other subjects. Although fully trusting to
 1737.1734household slaves. The masters, on the other hand, may be constantly seen bringing
 1747.369and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. In one instance I found to my
 1755.465slaves. Formica sanguinea, on the other hand, possesses much fewer slaves, and
 1757.169will, as I have seen, carry off pupæ of other species, if scattered near their nests
 1767.576irregular rounded cells of wax. At the other end of the series we have the cells of
 1767.1734made at that degree of nearness to each other, that they would have intersected or
 1767.1794have intersected or broken into each other, if the spheres had been completed; but
 1771.186as the cell adjoins two, three or more other cells. When one cell comes into contact
 1771.243one cell comes into contact with three other cells, which, from the spheres being
 1773.118at some given distance from each other, and had made them of equal sizes and
 1775.347centres of the adjoining spheres in the other and parallel layer; then, if planes of
 1787.617their work at such a distance from each other, that by the time the basins had
 1787.879basins intersected or broke into each other. As soon as this occurred, the bees
 1789.208to excavate little basins near to each other, in the same way as before; but the
 1789.410experiment, would have broken into each other from the opposite sides. The bees
 1793.388of wax. In parts, only little bits, in other parts, large portions of a rhombic
 1801.230at the proper distance from each other, by excavating at the same rate, and by
 1801.372allowing the spheres to break into each other. Now bees, as may be clearly seen by
 1813.574at the same relative distance from each other, all trying to sweep equal spheres, and
 1815.367proper place, projecting beyond the other completed cells. It suffices that the
 1815.488proper relative distances from each other and from the walls of the last
 1819.795first to one point, and then to five other points, at the proper relative
 1819.879from the central point and from each other, strike the planes of intersection, and
 1825.559on the number of its parasites or other enemies, or on quite distinct causes
 1825.1541of each cell would serve to bound other cells, and much wax would be saved
 1831.347spheres at a given distance from each other in a double layer, and to build up and
 1831.547at one particular distance from each other, than they know what are the several
 1839.231but not much greater than that of any other striking modification of structure; for
 1839.315it can be shown that some insects and other articulate animals in a state of nature
 1839.1118by the hive-bee. If a working ant or other neuter insect had been an animal in the
 1845.637breeds have longer horns than in other breeds, in comparison with the horns of
 1853.181females and males, but from each other, sometimes to an almost incredible
 1853.340do not generally graduate into each other, but are perfectly well defined; being
 1853.407defined; being as distinct from each other, as are any two species of the same
 1859.1164several British ants differ from each other in size and sometimes in colour; and
 1865.15well-developed ocelli. I may give one other case: so confidently did I expect to
 1869.512yet they graduate insensibly into each other, as does the widely-different structure
 1873.150nest, both widely different from each other and from their parents, has originated
 1883.553of my judgment, annihilate it. On the other hand, the fact that instincts are not
 1883.712been produced for the exclusive good of other animals, but that each animal takes
 1885.47is, also, strengthened by some few other facts in regard to instincts; as by
 1885.670a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird. Finally, it may not be a
 1896.265a special endowment, but incidental on other differences—Causes of the sterility of
 1898.871endowed quality, but is incidental on other acquired differences. In treating this
 1906.160few or no offspring. Hybrids, on the other hand, have their reproductive organs
 1914.177s ten cases. But in these and in many other cases, Gärtner is obliged carefully to
 1914.716being brought to it by insects from other plants. Nearly all the plants
 1914.1664came to the same conclusion in several other analogous cases; it seems to me that we
 1914.1754well be permitted to doubt whether many other species are really so sterile, when
 1918.155away so insensibly, and, on the other hand, that the fertility of pure
 1918.1198degree as is the evidence derived from other constitutional and structural
 1924.56lessens fertility, and, on the other hand, that an occasional cross with a
 1924.332numbers; and as the parent-species, or other allied hybrids, generally grow in the
 1932.921a compound hybrid descended from three other and distinct species: the result was
 1936.421result has, also, been confirmed by other observers in the case of Hippeastrum
 1936.509its sub-genera, and in the case of some other genera, as Lobelia, Passiflora and
 1936.725were perfectly good with respect to other species, yet as they were functionally
 1942.491are allowed to freely cross with each other, and the injurious influence of close
 1942.805stigmas plenty of pollen brought from other flowers. In regard to animals, much
 1944.195of animals are as distinct from each other, as are the genera of plants, then we
 1944.727canary-bird has been crossed with nine other finches, but as not one of these nine
 1972.500hybrids are remarkably sterile. On the other hand, there are species which can be
 1980.236in distinct families; and on the other hand, by very closely allied species
 1980.548with extreme difficulty; and on the other hand of very distinct species which
 1980.1055crossed than the species of almost any other genus; but Gärtner found that N
 1980.1227to be fertilised by, no less than eight other species of Nicotiana. Very many
 1986.554in their whole organisation. On the other hand, these cases clearly show that the
 1986.1176M. jalappa, and utterly failed. Several other equally striking cases could be given
 1988.8occasionally in a high degree. Several other singular rules could be given from
 1992.77a remarkable power of crossing with other species; other species of the same
 1992.92power of crossing with other species; other species of the same genus have a
 1992.806always utterly sterile, even when the other hybrids raised from seed from the same
 1998.30VIII. degree of resemblance to each other. This latter statement is clearly
 1998.169for according as the one species or the other is used as the father or the mother
 2000.537yet produce very sterile hybrids; and other species cross with extreme difficulty
 2002.38The foregoing rules and facts, on the other hand, appear to me clearly to indicate
 2006.141act on the female sexual element of the other, but not in a reversed direction. It
 2006.292I mean by sterility being incidental on other differences, and not a specially
 2006.984of two plants, one being woody and the other herbaceous, one being evergreen and the
 2006.1030herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely
 2006.1329to quite distinct families; and, on the other hand, closely allied species, and
 2006.1638family have been grafted together, in other cases species of the same genus will
 2006.1698of the same genus will not take on each other. The pear can be grafted far more
 2014.538grafted were rendered barren. On the other hand, certain species of Sorbus, when
 2014.593species of Sorbus, when grafted on other species, yielded twice as much fruit as
 2020.145with which trees can be grafted on each other as incidental on unknown differences in
 2032.669tend to produce sterile hybrids. On the other hand, one species in a group will
 2038.31VIII. be inappreciable by us; in the other case, or that of hybrids, the external
 2040.710of life having been disturbed, in the other case from the organisation having been
 2048.118benefit all organic beings, and on the other hand, that slight crosses, that is
 2054.209however much they may differ from each other in external appearance, cross with
 2056.210Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South
 2056.574varieties, differing widely from each other in appearance, for instance of the
 2056.753are, which, though resembling each other most closely, are utterly sterile when
 2060.910in the reproductive system, or other constitutional differences correlated
 2066.110from hostile witnesses, who in all other cases consider fertility and sterility
 2066.327with red seeds, growing near each other in his garden; and although these
 2066.496of the one with the pollen of the other; but only a single head produced any
 2074.276these varieties of Verbascum present no other difference besides the mere colour of
 2074.393be raised from the seed of the other. From observations which I have made
 2078.221a widely distinct species, than are the other varieties. He experimentised on five
 2078.639those which were produced from the four other varieties when crossed with N
 2086.204when crossed may be compared in several other respects. Gärtner, whose strong wish
 2086.506offspring of varieties. And, on the other hand, they agree most closely in very
 2096.303although most closely allied to each other, are [page] 274 HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII
 2100.73hybrids are widely different from each other; whereas if two very distinct varieties
 2102.123hybrid and mongrel plants. On the other hand, the resemblance in mongrels and
 2102.636cross, generally resemble each other closely; and so it is with mongrels
 2104.281more strongly in one sex than in the other, both when one species is crossed with
 2110.1222parents differ much or little from each other, namely in the union of individuals of
 2112.61of fertility and sterility, in all other respects there seems to be a general
 2132.112in the reproductive system. In all other respects, excluding fertility, there is
 2143.649important manner on the presence of other already defined organic forms, than on
 2153.141from this species or from some other allied species, such as C. oenas. So
 2155.466perhaps more than they differ from each other. Hence in all such cases, we should be
 2157.93forms might have descended from the other; for instance, a horse from a tapir
 2173.450formed at a quicker rate than many other deposits, yet, from being formed of
 2205.417on one side, or thrown down on the other, to the height or depth of thousands of
 2207.444the pile of rocks on the one or other side having been smoothly swept away
 2209.25of eternity. I am tempted to give one other case, the well-known one of the
 2213.1506of the fallen fragments. On the other hand, I do not believe that any line of
 2219.168reduce the above estimate. On the other hand, during oscillations of level
 2221.341cannot grasp, must have succeeded each other in the long roll of years! Now turn to
 2227.1473found fossil in Sicily, whereas not one other species has hitherto been found in any
 2235.188formations being separated from each other by wide intervals of time. When we see
 2235.570so it is in North America, and in many other parts of the world. The most skilful
 2241.138that is, have not followed each other in close sequence. Scarcely any fact
 2247.481supply of sediment nearly balance each other, the sea will remain shallow and
 2255.59before they had time to decay. On the other hand, as long as the bed of the sea
 2259.391blank in the geological record. On the other hand, during subsidence, the inhabited
 2269.102amount of migration during climatal and other changes; and when we see a species
 2273.1433vast geographical changes occurred in other parts of America during this space of
 2285.758have occurred in its accumulation. In other cases we have the plainest evidence in
 2285.1180root-bearing strata, one above the other, at no less than sixty-eight different
 2297.40yet are far more closely allied to each other than are the species found in more
 2299.4return in the following chapter. One other consideration is worth notice: with
 2299.796varieties; so that with shells and other marine animals, it is probably those
 2305.401their European representatives, and by other conchologists as only varieties, are
 2315.279subsidence would be separated from each other by enormous intervals, during which the
 2325.407some more distantly related to each other; and these links, let them be ever so
 2337.291thus acquired a great advantage over other organisms, a comparatively short time
 2355.180of Africa or Australia, and thus reach other and distant seas. From these and
 2357.88from our ignorance of the geology of other countries beyond the confines of Europe
 2367.302the dawn of life on this planet. Other highly competent judges, as Lyell and
 2379.353of which we have any record; and on the other hand, that where continents now exist
 2385.1106weight to the facts and arguments of other kinds given in this volume, will
 2398.358affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species—On the state of
 2408.483of this genus; whereas most of the other Silurian Molluscs and all the
 2412.787more especially on the nature of the other inhabitants with which the varying
 2424.139breed, could be raised from any other species of pigeon, or even from the
 2424.181species of pigeon, or even from the other well-established races of the domestic
 2432.965turn produce by equally slow steps other species, and so on, like the branching
 2440.418of Mastodon, Megatherium, Toxodon, and other extinct monsters, which all co-existed
 2444.677felt certain from the analogy of all other mammals, even of the slow-breeding
 2452.578horn cattle, and takes the place of other breeds in other countries. Thus the
 2452.594and takes the place of other breeds in other countries. Thus the appearance of new
 2454.141the forms which are most like each other in all respects. [page] 321 CHAP. X
 2458.955class, which yield their places to other species which have been modified and
 2472.532as mere superficial sculpture. Moreover other forms, which are not found in the Chalk
 2486.430to mere changes in marine currents or other causes more or less local and temporary
 2486.684to changes of currents, climate, or other physical conditions, as the cause of
 2488.306or have some advantage over the other forms in their own country, would
 2492.108to a certain extent the territories of other species, should be those which would
 2494.1068from one birthplace and some from the other might be victorious. But in the course
 2498.145they would cause the extinction of other and inferior forms; and as these
 2500.403advantage over their parents or over other species; these again spreading, varying
 2502.13tend to correspond. There is one other remark connected with this subject
 2506.0GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION. CHAP. X. other parts of the world. As we have reason
 2506.762more time in the one region than in the other for modification, extinction, and
 2512.84with a blank interval in the other,—and if in both regions the species
 2514.45Affinities of extinct Species to each other, and to living forms.—Let us now look
 2520.694at the present day from each other by a dozen characters, the ancient
 2520.936period made some small approach to each other. It is a common belief that the more
 2522.159groups now widely separated from each other. This remark no doubt must be
 2536.276be rendered less distinct from each other. If, for instance, the genera a1, a5, a
 2536.1132be united into one family; and the two other families (namely, a14 to f14 now
 2536.1299would be less distinct from each other than they were before the [page
 2540.115of the two families to differ from each other by a dozen characters, in this case the
 2542.680make some slight approach to each other; so that the older members should
 2542.742members should differ less from each other in some of their characters than do the
 2544.140of the extinct forms of life to each other and to living forms, seem to me
 2544.254And they are wholly inexplicable on any other view. On this same theory, it is
 2556.38supposing for an instant, in this and other such cases, that the record of the
 2558.271are far more closely related to each other, than are the fossils from two remote
 2570.161advantage in the struggle for life over other and preceding forms. If under a nearly
 2570.350inhabitants of the same or some other quarter, the eocene fauna or flora
 2570.1293exterminate many of the natives. On the other hand, from what we see now occurring in
 2576.472which have branched off from each other within comparatively recent times. For
 2578.400a slight degree less distinct from each other than are the typical members of the
 2584.1292it is not well displayed by them. Other cases could be added, as the relation
 2590.12SUCCESSION. CHAP. X. and, on the other hand, by similarity of conditions, for
 2590.280in Australia; or that Edentata and other American types should have been solely
 2596.72I suppose that the megatherium and other allied huge monsters have left behind
 2596.419which are closely allied in size and in other characters to the species still living
 2596.812next succeeding formation there be six other allied or representative genera with
 2596.1026constituting the six new genera. The other seven species of the old genera have
 2596.1278the parents of the six new genera; the other old species and the other whole genera
 2596.1304genera; the other old species and the other whole genera having become utterly
 2610.41from these difficulties, all the other great leading facts in palæontology
 2622.308are more closely allied to each other, than are those of remote formations
 2626.258greatly diminished or disappear. On the other hand, all the chief laws of
 2637.251be accounted for by their climatal and other physical conditions. Of late, almost
 2643.529more closely related to each other, than they are to the productions of
 2645.759are almost as much isolated from each other as is possible. On each continent, also
 2651.681in parallel lines not far from each other, under corresponding climates; but from
 2651.753but from being separated from each other by impassable barriers, either of land
 2651.844sea, they are wholly distinct. On the other hand, proceeding still further westward
 2657.506yet clearly related, replace each other. He hears from closely allied, yet
 2657.1430of the American type. Innumerable other instances could be given. If we look to
 2663.189the case of varieties nearly like each other. The dissimilarity of the inhabitants
 2669.438stand in direct competition with each other, migrate in a body into a new and
 2669.706organisms into new relations with each other, and in a lesser degree with the
 2671.593of migration is possible. But in many other cases, in which we have reason to
 2677.795two points so distant from each other, or with an interval of such a nature
 2677.1072mammals, than perhaps in any other organic beings; and, accordingly, we
 2681.664have not been able to migrate to the other side. Some few families, many sub
 2681.963are most closely related to each other, are generally local, or confined to
 2683.40Hence it seems to me, as it has to many other naturalists, that the view of each
 2683.412could have passed from one point to the other. But the geographical and climatal
 2693.65some former period immigrants from this other region, my theory will be strengthened
 2695.502which will never have blended with other individuals or varieties, but will have
 2695.564but will have supplanted each other; so that, at each successive stage of
 2699.547slightly from the horses of every other breed; but they do not owe their
 2703.37Means of Dispersal.—Sir C. Lyell and other authors have ably treated this subject
 2703.835productions to pass from one to the other. [page] 357 CHAP. XI. MEANS OF
 2707.263and Europe likewise with America. Other authors have thus hypothetically
 2707.1033them within the recent period to each other and to the several intervening oceanic
 2711.10DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XI. with each other, and with the many existing oceanic
 2711.428and the depth of the sea,—these and other such facts seem to me opposed to the
 2711.1042islands would have been formed, like other mountain-summits, of granite
 2711.1120schists, old fossiliferous or other such rocks, instead of consisting of
 2723.505action of the salt-water. On the other hand he did not previously dry the
 2723.1273could hardly be transported by any other means; and Alph. de Candolle has shown
 2743.490in comparison with the plants of other oceanic islands nearer to the mainland
 2743.940found large fragments of granite and other rocks, which do not occur in the
 2745.72means of transport, and that several other means, which without doubt remain to be
 2753.44immigrants from Europe or any other continent, that a poorly-stocked island
 2755.119mountain-summits, separated from each other by hundreds of miles of lowlands, where
 2755.370their having migrated from one to the other. It is indeed a remarkable fact to see
 2773.484of Europe and America, that when in other regions we find the same species on
 2773.583summits, we may almost conclude without other evidence, that a colder climate
 2781.119on mountain ranges distant from each other, and have survived there ever since
 2783.778and New Worlds are separated from each other by the Atlantic Ocean and by the
 2793.609were more closely related to each other than they are at the present time; for
 2795.219have been completely cut off from each other. This separation, as far as the more
 2795.513had to compete with them; and in the other great region, with those of the Old
 2801.620s admirable work), of some fish and other marine animals, in the Mediterranean
 2823.634the same or representing each other, and at the same time representing
 2823.1180on the one hand over India and on the other as far north as Japan. On the southern
 2825.95discovered several European species; other species, not introduced by man, occur
 2829.94distinct, though related to each other in a most remarkable manner. This
 2831.402Britain, its antipode, than to any other part of the world." Sir J. Richardson
 2839.338slowly on, all the tropical plants and other productions will have retreated from
 2839.1118suffered to a certain extent. On the other hand, the temperate productions, after
 2843.172plants from a temperate climate. On the other hand, the most humid and hottest
 2855.260part of Europe, though hides, wool, and other objects likely to carry seeds have been
 2863.623confined to the south, at these and other distant points of the southern
 2880.51river-systems are separated from each other by barriers of land, it might have been
 2886.650having caused rivers to flow into each other. Instances, also, could be given of
 2892.899one with fresh-water shells from the other. But another agency is perhaps more
 2892.1693sea to an oceanic island or to any other distant point. Sir Charles Lyell also
 2904.0of the smaller fresh-water animals. Other and unknown agencies probably have also
 2904.146kinds of seeds, though they reject many other kinds after having swallowed them; even
 2904.291water-lily and Potamogeton. Herons and other birds, century after century, have gone
 2904.394fish; they then take flight and go to other waters, or are blown across the sea
 2916.826of dispersal; but shall consider some other facts, which bear on the truth of the
 2918.755numbers, and the comparison in some other respects is not quite fair. We have
 2922.89they have on New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be named. In
 2928.88easily than land-birds. Bermuda, on the other hand, which lies at about the same
 2928.816have become mutually adapted to each other; and when settled in their new homes
 2930.108places are apparently occupied by the other inhabitants; in the Galapagos Islands
 2936.439be transported to an island by some other means; and the plant then becoming
 2936.1285taller and taller and overtopping the other plants. If so, natural selection would
 2948.695of endemic species belonging to other classes; and on continents it is
 2948.799and disappear at a quicker rate than other and lower animals. Though terrestrial
 2948.1217creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? On my view
 2954.1142time to follow up this subject in all other quarters of the world; but as far as I
 2972.404voice, was manifest. So it is with the other animals, and with nearly all the plants
 2972.1245in all these respects. On the other hand, there is a considerable degree of
 2978.168those of the nearest continent, or of other near islands. The exceptions are few
 2978.708the nearest mainland, than to any other region: and this is what might have
 2978.1009both New Zealand, South America, and other southern lands were long ago partially
 2984.500an incomparably closer degree to each other than to the inhabitants of any other
 2984.537other than to the inhabitants of any other part of the world. And this is just
 2984.663the islands are situated so near each other that they would almost certainly
 2984.765the same original source, or from each other. But this dissimilarity between the
 2984.981islands situated within sight of each other, having the same geological nature, the
 2984.1412be disputed that the nature of the other inhabitants, with which each has to
 2984.1628Archipelago which are found in other parts of the world (laying on one side
 2990.208islands have not quickly spread to the other islands. But the islands, though in
 2990.264the islands, though in sight of each other, are separated by deep arms of the sea
 2990.629more effectually separated from each other than they appear to be on a map
 2990.722good many species, both those found in other parts of the world and those confined
 2998.644spread from island to island. In many other instances, as in the several districts
 3004.358the caves of America and of Europe. Other analogous facts could be given. And it
 3006.210at remote points of the world of other species allied to it, is shown in
 3024.116within the recent period, and of other similar changes which may have occurred
 3032.1515or less direct competition with each other and with the aborigines; and according
 3038.374should have all its species common to other quarters of the world. We can see why
 3038.944should be closely related to each other, and likewise be related, but less
 3038.1031to those of the nearest continent or other source whence immigrants were probably
 3038.1140in two areas, however distant from each other, there should be a correlation, in the
 3044.1735they will generally stand to each other in time and space; in both cases the
 3057.75beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can
 3057.1022of inheritance, tend to produce other new and dominant [page
 3075.285together the forms most like each other. It might have been thought (and was in
 3095.114on their being correlated with several other characters of more or less importance
 3109.506belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata. Geographical
 3119.147due subordination and relation to the other groups, must be strictly genealogical
 3123.138and in different degrees from each other. The forms descended from A, now broken
 3123.725organic beings all related to each other in the same degree in blood, has come
 3135.256with our domestic productions, several other grades of difference are requisite, as
 3139.332allied in blood and alike in some other respects. If it could be proved that
 3139.513much he might differ in colour and other important characters from negroes
 3141.573however much they may differ from each other and from the adult; as he likewise
 3145.236bears, and what should we do with the other species? The supposition is of course
 3145.522with bears; but then assuredly all the other species of the kangaroo family would
 3147.1079good as, or even sometimes better than, other parts of the organisation. We [page
 3165.471or sinking the value of the groups in other classes (and all our experience shows
 3173.857are generally very distinct from each other, which again implies extinction. The
 3179.1055of its ancient progenitor than have other Rodents; and therefore it will not be
 3179.1312of an early member of the group. On the other hand, of all Marsupials, as Mr
 3185.513will consequently be related to each other by circuitous lines of affinity of
 3187.272other—for instance, of birds from all other vertebrate animals—by the belief that
 3187.470with the early progenitors of the other vertebrate classes. There has been less
 3187.635There has been still less in some other classes, as in that of the Crustacea
 3191.305each group could be distinguished from other groups, as all would blend together by
 3203.114of their habits of life, resemble each other in the general plan of their
 3211.217affecting by correlation of growth other parts of the organisation. In changes
 3215.481parts, by the soldering together of other parts, and by the doubling or
 3217.1019in embryonic crustaceans and in many other animals, and in flowers, that organs
 3231.459of any one part, as we find in the other great classes of the animal and
 3233.377been metamorphosed, not one from the other, but from some common element
 3239.583flies, beetles, &c., resemble each other much more closely than do the mature
 3239.899allied genera, often resemble each other in their first and second plumage; as
 3241.106animals of the same class resemble each other, often have no direct relation to their
 3247.585quite as much, or even more, from each other than do their adult parents. In most
 3251.1850and is destitute of mouth, stomach, or other organ of importance, excepting for
 3255.573of animals and in certain members of other groups, the embryo does not at any
 3257.419but not universally, resembling each other;—of the structure of the embryo not
 3263.251indeed the evidence rather points the other way; for it is notorious that breeders
 3267.526animals supports this view. But in other cases it is quite possible that each
 3275.89far their puppies differed from each other: I was told by breeders that they
 3277.777them could be distinguished from each other, yet their proportional differences in
 3281.160of the wild rock-pigeon and of the other breeds, in all its proportions, almost
 3289.94will manifestly tend to resemble each other much more closely than do the adults
 3289.706parent-species will still resemble each other closely, for they will not have been
 3289.1124use on the one hand, and disuse on the other, may have in modifying an organ, such
 3295.1026is perhaps requisite. If, on the other hand, it profited the young to follow
 3301.723they may at present differ from each other in structure and habits, if they pass
 3309.396lobe of the lungs is rudimentary; in other snakes there are rudiments of the
 3315.160of the same species) resembling each other most closely in all respects, one of
 3317.158and remain perfectly efficient for the other. Thus in plants, the office of the
 3321.258and is clothed with hairs as in other compositæ, for the purpose of brushing
 3321.610into a nascent breathing organ or lung. Other similar instances could be given
 3323.114to vary in degree of development and in other respects. Moreover, in closely allied
 3351.676and characters of true affinity; and other such rules;—all naturally follow on the
 3359.358will become widely different from each other in structure and function; and the
 3365.220view, even if it were unsupported by other facts or arguments. [page] 459 CHAP
 3392.1071forms, lessen fertility; and on the other hand, lesser changes in the conditions
 3404.182and of which the climate and other conditions of life change insensibly in
 3412.1665Local varieties will not spread into other and distant regions until they are
 3416.380formations are separated from each other by enormous blank intervals of time
 3418.638being much more closely related to each other, than are the fossils from formations
 3418.700from formations distant from each other in time. Such is the sum of the
 3426.23modification. Now let us turn to the other side of the argument. Under
 3426.930infinite number of generations. On the other hand we have evidence that variability
 3438.88into the closest competition with each other, the struggle will generally be most
 3454.495of varieties; for they differ from each other by a less amount of difference than do
 3454.705are clustered in little groups round other species—in which respects they resemble
 3464.5created, no man can explain. Many other facts are, as it seems to me
 3464.492an auk or grebe! and so on in endless other cases. But on the view of each [page
 3470.956the live bodies of caterpillars; and at other such cases. The wonder indeed is, on
 3476.541so that when one part has been modified other parts are necessarily modified. In both
 3478.173of the same genus differ from each other, be more variable than the generic
 3478.360in any one species of a genus, if the other species, supposed to have been created
 3478.823to be specifically distinct from each other; [page] 474 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV
 3482.760and yet not be more variable than any other structure, if the part be common to
 3488.341mistakes, and at many instincts causing other animals to suffer. If species be only
 3490.227parents,—in being absorbed into each other by successive crosses, and in other
 3490.263other by successive crosses, and in other such points,—as do the crossed
 3490.344of acknowledged varieties. On the other hand, these would be strange facts if
 3496.1104Australia, of edentata in America, and other such cases,—is intelligible, for within
 3502.1064period completely separated from each other; for as the relation of organism to
 3502.1241from some third source or from each other, at various periods and in different
 3504.332oceanic islands; and why, on the other hand, new and peculiar species of bats
 3508.68species of bats, and the absence of all other mammals, on oceanic islands, are
 3510.722of Juan Fernandez, and of the other American islands being related in the
 3510.899of the Cape de Verde archipelago and other African islands to the African mainland
 3518.215and of the elephant,—and innumerable other such facts, at once explain themselves
 3532.94that one species has given birth to other and distinct species, is that we are
 3540.145genus are not real species; but that other species are real, that is, have been
 3540.615they refuse to extend the same view to other and very slightly different forms
 3546.884age the species closely resemble each other. Therefore I cannot doubt that the
 3554.685sufficiently constant and distinct from other forms, to be capable of definition; and
 3560.4essence of the term species. The other and more general departments of natural
 3588.291forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so
 3588.320from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been
 3855.17Driver-ant, 240. Drones killed by other bees, 202. Duck, domestic, wings of
 3940.57in large genera being closely allied to other species, 57. Frigate-bird, 185. Frogs
 4305.45midst of range, have to struggle with other plants, 77. —, nectar of
 4344.23of increase, 63. Rats, supplanting each other, 76. —, acclimatisation of
 4886.46LORD) Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia
 5096.19Map. 8vo. 10s. 6d. —— Pilgrimage, and other Poems. Crown 4to. 24s. —— Essays on
 5858.113derived from Personal Observation and other Sources, Public, Private, Legendary
 5906.84With Travels to Palmyra, Lebanon, and other Scripture Sites. Map and Woodcuts
 6118.95Campaigns. Compiled from Official and other Authentic Documents, By COL. GUBWOOD, C
 6120.42Supplementary Letters, Despatches, and other Papers relating to India. Edited by his
2  other's 
 2566.225have not as yet defined to each other's satisfaction what is meant by high and
 2994.230of closely allied species invading each other's territory, when put into free
1  other—for 
 3187.234distinctness of whole classes from each other—for instance, of birds from all other
1  other—have 
 3233.619in the one case and legs in the other—have actually been modified into skulls or
71  others 
 375.863breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others
 375.897others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails. The barb is
 463.283weights they carry. Lord Spencer and others have shown how the cattle of England
 511.1125some domestic animals vary less than others, yet the rarity or absence of distinct
 542.601can unite two forms together by others having intermediate characters, he
 548.1434years ago, when comparing, and seeing others compare, the birds from the separate
 584.22to be discussed. Alph. De Candolle and others have shown that plants which have very
 731.844the most fertile, will beat the others and so yield more seed, and will
 770.130any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of
 772.579would most seriously affect many of the others. If the country were open on its
 778.1227would often give it an advantage over others; and still further modifications of the
 816.1504well armed; though to them and to others, special means of defence may be given
 822.167of Guiana, birds of Paradise, and some others, congregate; and successive males
 900.536necessity for each birth; in many others it occurs perhaps only at long
 934.182species become modified and improved, others will have to be improved in a
 934.433thus come into competition with many others. Hence more new places will be formed
 964.145are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and
 976.765some breeders, and of stronger ones by others, the differences would become greater
 1002.707representing, as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked, our carnivorous
 1056.292I) more to G, H, K, L, than to the others. These two species (A) and (I), were
 1161.772have been enlarged, and the wings of others have been reduced by natural selection
 1167.338been expected; but, as Schiodte and others have remarked, this is not the case
 1189.573withstand certain climates better than others: this is very strikingly shown in works
 1189.743recommended for the northern, and others for the southern States; and as most of
 1189.1790some seedlings appeared to be than others. On the whole, I think we may conclude
 1203.248in the shape of their kidneys. Others believe that the shape of the pelvis in
 1205.179very frequently, and that others rarely coexist, without our being able
 1323.969of it, as stated by Mr. Blyth and others, occasionally appear: and I have been
 1412.612all either prey on or serve as prey for others; in short, that each organic being is
 1412.1236depending as it does on the range of others, will tend to be sharply defined
 1450.131tails only slightly flattened, and from others, as Sir J. Richardson has remarked
 1478.650which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase
 1486.852or partridge. In such cases, and many others could be given, habits have changed
 1540.361have been produced; but, as Owen and others have remarked, [page] 193 CHAP. VI
 1671.205been produced for the exclusive good of others. One of the strongest instances of an
 1675.1279to take advantage of the instincts of others, as each takes advantage of the weaker
 1675.1345of the weaker bodily structure of others. So again, in some few cases, certain
 1883.784takes advantage of the instincts of others;—that the canon in natural history, of
 2026.269why certain trees cannot be grafted on others. Lastly, an embryo may be developed
 2293.303the very fine species of D'Orbigny and others into the rank of varieties; and on this
 2385.939these great authorities, to whom, with others, we owe all our knowledge. Those who
 2412.313is quite independent of that of all others. Whether such variability be taken
 2412.967same identical form much longer than others; or, if changing, that it should change
 2759.41this same belief, had not Agassiz and others called vivid attention to the Glacial
 2799.202rank as geographical races, and others as distinct species; and a host of
 2833.588as specifically distinct, by others as varieties; but some are certainly
 2857.403the reason why certain species and not others have migrated; [page] 381 CHAP. XI
 2861.87given rise to new groups of forms, and others have remained unaltered. We cannot hope
 2892.540which I have observed—and no doubt many others remain to be observed—throw some light
 2928.897each kind will have been kept by the others to their proper places and habits, and
 2994.117spread from some one island to the others. But we often take, I think, an
 3032.1358which allowed certain forms and not others to enter, either in greater or lesser
 3044.966some organisms differ little, whilst others belonging to a different class, or to a
 3101.246number of forms, and not common to others, they use it as one of high value; if
 3101.571are always found correlated with others, though no apparent bond of connexion
 3109.397both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards
 3109.418plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as
 3113.256best botanists, such as Mr. Bentham and others, have strongly insisted on their
 3129.566given rise to few new languages, whilst others (owing to the spreading and subsequent
 3135.1714some sub-varieties differ from the others [page] 424 CLASSIFICATION. CHAP. XIII
 3159.228has been ably followed by Macleay and others. The resemblance, in the shape of the
 3197.1138certain resemblances far more than others; why we are permitted to use
 3197.1209use rudimentary and useless organs, or others of trifling physiological importance
 3215.535by the doubling or multiplication of others,—variations which we know to be within
 3337.1171might become injurious under others, as with the wings of beetles living on
 3394.445have passed from some one part to the others. We are often wholly unable [page
 3502.617plants, and the close alliance of many others, on the most distant mountains, under
 3512.524are far more serviceable than others for classification;—why adaptive
 3578.0of [page] 488 CONCLUSION. CHAP. XIV. others; it follows, that the amount of organic
 4565.60in large genera being closely allied to others, 57. ——on the tarsi of Engidæ, 157. —on
 5116.111Pacific, including the Fejees, and others inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races
10  otherwise 
 331.7page] 14 VARIATION. CHAP. I. not be otherwise: thus the inherited peculiarities in
 653.287during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical
 735.6FOR EXISTENCE. CHAP. III. tion, otherwise the weaker kinds will steadily decrease
 922.449individuals of the same species, which otherwise would have inhabited the surrounding
 982.882all animals—that is, if they vary—for otherwise natural selection can do nothing. So it
 1349.140striped like a zebra, but perhaps otherwise very differently constructed, the
 1508.91treatise that large bodies of facts, otherwise inexplicable, can be explained by the
 1883.975on the foregoing views, but is otherwise inexplicable,—all tend to corroborate
 1966.1163of the hybrid to wither earlier than it otherwise would have done; and the early
 2307.161some few groups less wide than they otherwise would have been, yet has done scarcely
2  otter 
 1442.685has webbed feet and which resembles an otter in its fur, short legs, and form of
 4244.0American, two species of, 349. Otter, habits of, how acquired, 179. Ouzel
40  ought 
 272.7and a few concluding remarks. No one ought to feel surprise at much remaining as
 596.356many varieties or incipient species ought, as a general rule, to be now forming
 602.257of species has been active, we ought generally to find the manufactory still
 616.272parent-species, their denominations ought to be reversed. But there is also
 796.315once acquired, true and constant. Nor ought we to think that the occasional
 928.686the production of new organic forms, we ought to make the comparison within equal
 1004.38After the foregoing discussion, which ought to have been much amplified, we may, I
 1183.1252or sub-tropical in their habits, ought not to be looked at as anomalies, but
 1267.572and extraordinarily great that we ought to find the generative variability, as
 1315.774new but analogous variations, yet we ought, on my theory, sometimes to find the
 1400.98inhabit the same territory we surely ought to find at the present time many
 1400.1093its past and present states. Hence we ought not to expect at the [page
 1412.324elements of distribution, these facts ought to cause surprise, as climate and
 1430.459any one region and at any one time, we ought only to see a few species presenting
 1500.86in any species has been perfected, we ought to look exclusively to its lineal
 1508.158be explained by the theory of descent, ought not to hesitate to go further, and to
 1508.384of the transitional grades. His reason ought to conquer his imagination; though I
 1510.456the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of
 1580.1840arisen through ordinary generation, we ought not to lay too much stress on our
 1606.962sisters? It may be difficult, but we ought to admire the savage instinctive hatred
 1669.162in the case of corporeal structures, we ought to find in nature, not the actual
 1669.352lineal ancestors of each species-but we ought to find in the collateral lines of
 1669.441some evidence of such gradations; or we ought at least to be able to show that
 1677.191as many instances as possible ought to have been here given; but want of
 1859.842the desired character. On this view we ought occasionally to find neuter-insects of
 2060.480sterile; and if this be so, we surely ought not to expect to find sterility both
 2293.419of change which on my theory we ought to find. Moreover, if we look to rather
 2325.316long and branching chain of life. We ought only to look for a few links, some more
 2367.1145obliterated by metamorphic action, we ought to find only small remnants of the
 2367.1236next succeeding them in age, and these ought to be very generally in [page
 2564.324between successive formations, we ought not to expect to find, as I attempted
 2564.547and close of these periods; but we ought to find after intervals, very long as
 2687.70and of so grave a nature, that we ought to give up the belief, rendered
 3010.1125the most remote points of the world, we ought to find, and I believe as a general
 3145.26But it may be asked, what ought we to do, if it could be proved that
 3145.159course of modification, from a bear? Ought we to rank this one species with bears
 3382.296Natura non facit saltum," that we ought to be extremely cautious in saying that
 3390.149tends to eliminate sterility, we ought not to expect it also to produce
 3398.220as measured by years, too much stress ought not to be laid on the occasional wide
 3470.404productions from another land. Nor ought we to marvel if all the contrivances in
1  ounces 
 2898.1377this mud when dry weighed only 6 3/4 ounces; I kept it covered up in my study for
1  oural 
 2809.127the western shores of Britain to the Oural range, and southward to the Pyrenees
2  ourang-outang 
 1245.362to the length of the arms of the ourang-outang, that he has come to a nearly similar
 4248.33on variable length of arms in ourang-outang, 150. ——, on the swim-bladder of fishes
6  ourselves 
 755.225on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of
 928.519But we may thus greatly deceive ourselves, for to ascertain whether a small
 1651.308other birds' nests. An action, which we ourselves should require experience to enable us
 2227.319view, when we tacitly admit to ourselves that sediment is being deposited over
 2305.0page] 299 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. ourselves whether, for instance, geologists at
 2444.388classes, in all countries. If we ask ourselves why this or that species is rare, we
15  outer 
 317.504feathered feet have skin between their outer toes; pigeons with short beaks have
 399.263dark bar, with the bases of the outer feathers externally edged with white
 399.682marks, even to the white edging of the outer tail-feathers, sometimes concur
 1018.1064variations (represented by the outer dotted lines) being preserved and
 1167.704by successive generations from the outer world into the deeper and deeper
 1205.422the feathered feet and skin between the outer toes in pigeons, and the presence of
 1207.221than that of the difference between the outer and inner flowers in some Compositous
 1211.635the densest heads that the inner and outer flowers most frequently differ. It
 1211.892is a difference in the seeds of the outer and inner florets without any
 1303.45a bar at the end of the tail, with the outer feathers externally edged near their
 1771.61Hence each cell consists of an outer spherical portion and of two, three, or
 1771.863but are of the same thickness as the outer spherical portions, and yet each flat
 3081.60welfare of the being in relation to the outer world. Perhaps from this cause it has
 3788.12of growth, 147. Compositae, outer and inner florets of, 144. ——, male
 4510.41young leaves of, 439. Umbelliferæ, outer and inner florets of, 144. Unity of
5  outline 
 375.540The short-faced tumbler has a beak in outline almost like that of a finch; and the
 1323.613certainly very variable in length and outline. A white ass, but not an albino, has
 1763.119this subject, but will merely give an outline of the conclusions at which I have
 1966.240be shown to exist; but only the barest outline of the facts can here be given. When
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1  outnumbered 
 2855.822productions are nearly equalled or even outnumbered by the naturalised; and if the natives
2  outside 
 1819.424she work alternately on the inside and outside of two or three cells commenced at the
 1819.749to commence a cell, and then moving outside, first to one point, and then to five
1  ouzel 
 4245.0Otter, habits of, how acquired, 179. Ouzel, water, 185. Owen, Prof., on birds not
1  ovaria 
 3081.1492differ in having one or more ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen
1  ovaries 
 1932.974species: the result was that "the ovaries of the three first flowers soon ceased
2  ovarium 
 2022.657long for the pollen-tubes to reach the ovarium. It has also been observed that when
 3317.272to reach the ovules protected in the ovarium at its base. The pistil consists of a
1  ovary 
 1211.246in shape and sculpture; and even the ovary itself, with its accessory parts
1  overcome 
 1361.981such cases not as yet have had time to overcome the tendency to further variability and
2  overlook 
 1098.584fact—the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity—that all animals and
 2608.4he [page] 343 CHAP. X. SUMMARY. may overlook how important a part migration must
4  overlooked 
 449.1033the importance of which should never be overlooked, will ensure some differences; but, as
 485.76by uncivilised man, it should not be overlooked that they almost always have to
 2285.698facts, showing what wide, yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its
 3113.606structural differences, at first overlooked, but because numerous allied species
2  overlying 
 2213.436the Weald, on the flanks of which the overlying sedimentary deposits might have
 2550.1052in character between those of the overlying carboniferous, and underlying Silurian
1  overmaster 
 1104.517and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for
2  overmastered 
 1195.238largely combined with, and sometimes overmastered by, the natural selection of innate
 1293.1200according to the lapse of time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to
2  overrate 
 914.83which unite for each birth, we must not overrate the effects of intercrosses in
 3578.434become modified; so that we must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a
1  over-rate 
 2331.791descendants. But we continually over-rate the perfection of the geological record
1  overrated 
 1173.842climates under which they live is often overrated. [page] 140 LAWS OF VARIATION. CHAP. V
3  overthrow 
 1649.315readers, as a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. I must premise, that I
 2084.205does not seem to me sufficient to overthrow the view which I have taken with
 3424.516are, in my judgment they do not overthrow the theory of descent with modification
2  overtop 
 1104.398to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and
 1108.576and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so
1  overtopping 
 2936.1269by growing taller and taller and overtopping the other plants. If so, natural
1  overweening 
 1859.41will indeed be thought that I have an overweening confidence in the principle of natural
1  overwhelmed 
 3538.827of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed. Several eminent
1  overwhelming 
 558.326and there is, as it seems to me, an overwhelming amount of experimental evidence
6  ovigerous 
 1536.17ON THEORY. CHAP. VI. called by me the ovigerous frena, which serve, through the means
 1536.337cirripedes, on the other hand, have no ovigerous frena, the eggs lying loose at the
 1536.508I think no one will dispute that the ovigerous frena in the one family are strictly
 1536.723of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very
 3768.9carapace aborted, 148. —, their ovigerous frena, 192. —, fossil, 304. ——, larvæ
 3938.7flava, neuter of, 239. Frena, ovigerous, of cirripedes, 192. Fresh-water
1  ovipositor 
 1592.381in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are
4  ovule 
 303.374difference between a bud and an ovule in their earliest stages of formation
 1123.366apparently differ essentially from an ovule, is alone affected. But why, because
 1930.570one as an example, namely, that "every ovule in a pod of Crinum capense fertilised
 2022.557in the male element reaching the ovule, as would be the case with a plant
6  ovules 
 303.253affected a bud or offset, and not the ovules or pollen. But it is the opinion of
 303.513may be largely attributed to the ovules or pollen, or to both, having been
 331.763cause, which may have acted on the ovules or male element; in nearly the same
 1610.597be wafted by a chance breeze on to the ovules? Summary of Chapter.—We have in this
 1936.652healthy, and although both the ovules and pollen of the same flower were
 3317.248to allow the pollen-tubes to reach the ovules protected in the ovarium at its base
3  owen's 
 1237.554vegetative repetition," to use Prof. Owen's expression, seems to be a sign of low
 1530.256We can thus, as I infer from Professor Owen's interesting description of these parts
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28  owing 
 317.743modify other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of the
 641.533inevitably from the struggle for life. Owing to this struggle for life, any
 699.16INCREASE. CHAP. III. When a species, owing to highly favourable circumstances
 934.625great areas, though now continuous, owing to oscillations of level, will often
 1026.252have produced variety a2, which will, owing to the principle of divergence, differ
 1060.106species, will now be fifteen in number. Owing to the divergent tendency of natural
 1062.225the six descendants from (I) will, owing to inheritance, differ considerably
 1084.749to the future, we may predict that, owing to the continued and steady increase of
 1090.106this cannot be disputed; if there be, owing to the high geometrical powers of
 1171.818ancient life have not been preserved, owing to the less severe competition to which
 1225.1367withdrawal of nutriment from one part owing to the excess of growth in another and
 1239.253add that their variability seems to be owing to their uselessness, and therefore to
 1604.655attacking animals, cannot be withdrawn, owing to the backward serratures, and so
 1906.737has probably been slurred over, owing to the sterility in both cases being
 1944.574should, however, be borne in mind that, owing to few animals breeding freely under
 2104.116is here excessively complicated, partly owing to the existence of secondary sexual
 2104.191sexual characters; but more especially owing to prepotency in transmitting likeness
 2273.1710and disappear at different levels, owing to the migration of species and to
 2486.386the introduction of new ones, cannot be owing to mere changes in marine currents or
 2500.313thus produced being themselves dominant owing to inheritance, and to having already
 2576.677that the adult differs from its embryo, owing to variations supervening at a not
 2602.306even during a single formation; that, owing to subsidence being necessary for the
 2954.867in forming a judgment in some cases owing to the probable naturalisation of
 3129.574to few new languages, whilst others (owing to the spreading and subsequent
 3179.1562the resemblance is only analogical, owing to the phascolomys having become
 3305.289of recent forms, may be true, but yet, owing to the geological record not extending
 3412.804could hardly ever expect to discover, owing to the imperfection of the geological
 3498.155from one part of the world to another, owing to former climatal and geographical
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 1630.281cases at the same time useful to the owner. Natural selection in each well-stocked
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