The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life |
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... young cuckoos ejecting their foster - brothers confirmed . On the cuckoo - like habits of the Molothrus . On fertile hybrid moths . The discussion on the fertility of hybrids not having been acquired through natural selection condensed ...
... young cuckoos ejecting their foster - brothers confirmed . On the cuckoo - like habits of the Molothrus . On fertile hybrid moths . The discussion on the fertility of hybrids not having been acquired through natural selection condensed ...
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... young of the same litter , and in seedlings from the same seed - capsule . At long intervals of time , out of millions of individuals reared in the same coun- try and fed on nearly the same food , deviations of structure so strongly ...
... young of the same litter , and in seedlings from the same seed - capsule . At long intervals of time , out of millions of individuals reared in the same coun- try and fed on nearly the same food , deviations of structure so strongly ...
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... young ; whereas carnivorous birds , with the rarest ex- ceptions , hardly ever lay fertile eggs . Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless , in the same con- dition as in the most sterile hybrids . When , on the one hand , we ...
... young ; whereas carnivorous birds , with the rarest ex- ceptions , hardly ever lay fertile eggs . Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless , in the same con- dition as in the most sterile hybrids . When , on the one hand , we ...
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... young naturalist commences the study of a group of organisms quite unknown to him , he is at first . much perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific , and what as varietal ; for he knows nothing of the amount and ...
... young naturalist commences the study of a group of organisms quite unknown to him , he is at first . much perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific , and what as varietal ; for he knows nothing of the amount and ...
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... young in the interval , and surviving till one hundred years old ; if this be so , after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive , descended from the first pair . But we have better ...
... young in the interval , and surviving till one hundred years old ; if this be so , after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive , descended from the first pair . But we have better ...
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