On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
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... kind , fitted for the country which they inhabit . Of the accidental varieties of man , which would occur among the first few and scat- tered inhabitants of the middle regions of Africa , some one would be better fitted than the others ...
... kind , fitted for the country which they inhabit . Of the accidental varieties of man , which would occur among the first few and scat- tered inhabitants of the middle regions of Africa , some one would be better fitted than the others ...
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... kind so truly , were the offspring of any single species , then such facts would . have great weight in making us doubt about the immu- tability of the many very closely allied natural species —for instance , of the many foxes ...
... kind so truly , were the offspring of any single species , then such facts would . have great weight in making us doubt about the immu- tability of the many very closely allied natural species —for instance , of the many foxes ...
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... kinds of wheat and barley , the pea , the poppy for oil , and flax ; and they possessed several domesticated animals ; they had also commerce with other nations . All this clearly shows , as Heer has remarked , that they had at this ...
... kinds of wheat and barley , the pea , the poppy for oil , and flax ; and they possessed several domesticated animals ; they had also commerce with other nations . All this clearly shows , as Heer has remarked , that they had at this ...
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... kinds , well knowing how truly they breed , I felt fully as much difficulty in believing that since they had been domesticated they had all proceeded from a common parent , as any naturalist could in coming to a 30 CHAP . I. DOMESTIC ...
... kinds , well knowing how truly they breed , I felt fully as much difficulty in believing that since they had been domesticated they had all proceeded from a common parent , as any naturalist could in coming to a 30 CHAP . I. DOMESTIC ...
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... kind of selection is , in fact , also followed ; for hardly any one is so careless as to allow his worst animals to breed ... kinds of gooseberries differ in size , colour , shape , and hairiness , and yet the flowers present very slight ...
... kind of selection is , in fact , also followed ; for hardly any one is so careless as to allow his worst animals to breed ... kinds of gooseberries differ in size , colour , shape , and hairiness , and yet the flowers present very slight ...
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