The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life |
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... seeds that must be transported by certain birds , and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other , it is equally preposterous to account for the ...
... seeds that must be transported by certain birds , and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other , it is equally preposterous to account for the ...
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... seed - capsule . At long intervals of time , out of millions of individuals reared in the same country and fed on nearly the same food , deviations of structure so strongly pronounced as to deserve to be called monstrosities arise ; but ...
... seed - capsule . At long intervals of time , out of millions of individuals reared in the same country and fed on nearly the same food , deviations of structure so strongly pronounced as to deserve to be called monstrosities arise ; but ...
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... seed ! In some few cases it has been discovered that a very trifling change , such as a little more or less water at some particular period of growth , will determine whether or not a plant will produce seeds . I cannot here give the ...
... seed ! In some few cases it has been discovered that a very trifling change , such as a little more or less water at some particular period of growth , will determine whether or not a plant will produce seeds . I cannot here give the ...
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... seed . They occur rarely under nature , but are far from rare under culture . As a single bud out of the many thousands , produced year after year on the same tree under uniform conditions , has been known suddenly to assume a new ...
... seed . They occur rarely under nature , but are far from rare under culture . As a single bud out of the many thousands , produced year after year on the same tree under uniform conditions , has been known suddenly to assume a new ...
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... seeds of the same trec . Innumerable other examples could be given . The explanation , I think , is simple : from long - continued study they are strongly impressed with the differences between the several races ; and though they well ...
... seeds of the same trec . Innumerable other examples could be given . The explanation , I think , is simple : from long - continued study they are strongly impressed with the differences between the several races ; and though they well ...
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