On the Origin of Species: Or, the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature
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To return to the case of the domestic breedsof pigeons, for example; you have the Dove-cot pigeon, which closelyresembles the Rock pigeon, from which they all started, existing at thesame time with the others. And if species are developed in the same wayin nature, a primitive stock and its modifications may, occasionally, all find the conditions fitted for their existence; and though they comeinto competition, to a certain extent, with one another, the derivativespecies may not necessarily exti...rpate the primitive one, or 'viceversa'.
Now palaeontology shows us many facts which are perfectly harmoniouswith these observed effects of the process by which Mr. Darwin supposesspecies to have originated, but which appear to me to be totallyinconsistent with any other hypothesis which has been proposed. Thereare some groups of animals and plants, in the fossil world, which havebeen said to belong to "persistent types, " because they have persisted, with very little change indeed, through a very great range of time, while everything about them has changed largely.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
To return to the case of the domestic breedsof pigeons, for example; you have the Dove-cot pigeon, which closelyresembles the Rock pigeon, from which they all started, existing at thesame time with the others. And if species are developed in the same wayin nature, a primitive stock and its modifications may, occasionally, all find the conditions fitted for their existence; and though they comeinto competition, to a certain extent, with one another, the derivativespecies may not necessarily exti...rpate the primitive one, or 'viceversa'.
Now palaeontology shows us many facts which are perfectly harmoniouswith these observed effects of the process by which Mr. Darwin supposesspecies to have originated, but which appear to me to be totallyinconsistent with any other hypothesis which has been proposed. Thereare some groups of animals and plants, in the fossil world, which havebeen said to belong to "persistent types, " because they have persisted, with very little change indeed, through a very great range of time, while everything about them has changed largely.
What to read after On the Origin of Species: Or, the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature?
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