 I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.  Nature - Síða 145 breytti - 1873Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1860 - 1172 síður
...vegetable life warrants the conclusion, that Ml living animals "have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 síður
...warrants the conclusion, that all living animals " have descended from, at most, only four or live progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | 1875 - 828 síður
...his work on the " Origin of Species" he snys " I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page he goes much further : " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 síður
...whom this divergence is maintained : this * " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." — Origin of Species, p. 484. Mr Darwin goes on to say: " Analogy would lead one step further, namely,... | |
 | 1860 - 800 síður
...members of the same class." Furthermore, " I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step in the same direction, while he protests that... | |
 | 1860 - 446 síður
...ages, Mr. Darwin thinks it proved that all animals have descended in one direct genealogical line " from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number ;" and probable that " all the organic oeings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from... | |
 | 1860 - 880 síður
...weight, and worthy of consideration : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | 1860 - 890 síður
...embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1176 síður
...vegetable life warrants the conclusion, that all living animals " have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 síður
...(p. 419, nearly the last page of his book:) "I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
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