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" Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. "
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ... - Page 424
by Charles Darwin - 1873 - 458 pages
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The Beginning and Way of Life ...: Illustrated with One Hundred Twenty-four ...

Charles Wentworth Littlefield - Life - 1919 - 702 pages
...says: "Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may...much in common in their chemical composition, their laws of growth and their liabilities to injurious influences." This time analogy proved to be a deceitful...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 4

Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1862 - 552 pages
...:— " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may...much in common in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular 'structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. Therefore,...
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Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik, Volume 26

Botany - 1894 - 826 pages
...Bildungen erzeugte wie die Perlmuschel bei Einwanderung des Schmarotzers und nach dem Satze Darwin's1) — „Nevertheless all living things have much in common...influences. We see this even in so trifling a fact äs that tbe same poison often similarly affects plants and animals, .or that the poison secreted by...
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[The correspondence ] ; The correspondence of Charles ..., Volume 8; Volume 1860

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1993 - 836 pages
...from top, after "deceitful guide," omit whole remainder of paragraph, and insert, instead, as follows: Nevertheless, all living things have much in common;...their liability to injurious influences. We see this in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals, or...
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Non-natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise of More Heat Than Light

Neil De Marchi - Business & Economics - 1993 - 392 pages
...a deceitful guide." Yet he found the evidence for common descent to be very persuasive, noting that "all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction." This evidence...
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Interactions: Some Contacts Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1994 - 228 pages
...a deceitful guide." Yet he found the evidence for common descent to be very persuasive, noting that "all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction." This evidence...
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Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research

Geoffrey A. Clark, Catherine M. Willermet - Social Science - 532 pages
...molecular biology (although not, of course, described as such) was evident in the words of Darwin himself: "Nevertheless, all living things have much in common,...their chemical composition, their cellular structure, . . . and their liability to injurious influences" (1884:424, 425). How much closer could Darwin have...
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Victorian Prose: An Anthology

Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 pages
...number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may...much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this...
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The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis

David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 386 pages
...as we know it evolved from a common ancestor. The notion of the unity of life goes back to Darwin: "All living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. . . . Therefore...
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The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis

David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 390 pages
...as we know it evolved from a common ancestor. The notion of the unity of life goes back to Darwin: "All living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. . . . Therefore...
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