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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ... - Page 322
by Charles Darwin - 1873 - 458 pages
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The First Principles of Evolution

Solomon Herbert - Evolution - 1913 - 438 pages
...looked upon as the modified descendants of bygone organic forms. As AR Wallace has expressed it : " Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing and closely allied species." The breaking up of biological regions into distinct, separate areas may...
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Collected papers, Volume 1

Nils von Hofsten - 1916 - 178 pages
...Deszendenztheorie bezeichnet werden kann. WALLACE formuliert das von ihm festgestellte Gesetz folgendermaßen: „Every species has come into existence coincident...time with a pre-existing closely allied species". Wie dachte er sich nun die „Verbindung" zwischen den Arten? Er spricht mehrmals ausdrücklich von...
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Life and Evolution: An Introduction to General Biology

Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 470 pages
...significance that closely allied forms tend to cluster in the same general region. As Wallace remarks, " Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a preexisting and closely allied species." This is, of course, what we should expect if species were derived the...
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Life and Evolution: An Introduction to General Biology

Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 476 pages
...significance that closely allied forms tend to cluster in the same general region. As Wallace remarks, " Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a preexisting and closely allied species." This is, of course, what we should expect if species were derived the...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 12

Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1856 - 714 pages
...renewal of the forms of life in successive geological epochs, he has deduced the following law : — Every species has come into existence .coincident...and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. The question is one of great importance, and deserving the careful investigation of every geologist...
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 726 pages
...word variety for species) from that lately advanced in an ingenious paper by Mr. Wallace, in which he concludes, that "every species has come into existence...time with a pre-existing closely allied species.'" CD refers to Wallace '8554 Malthus 1826. 5 Hooker 1859 was the first scientific work to discuss CD's...
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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology

M. J. S. Rudwick - Nature - 1985 - 303 pages
...Wallace argued that the facts of geographical and geological distribution of species suggested the 'law' that "Every species has come into existence coincident...time with a pre-existing closely allied species". Very probably he was already convinced that some kind of trans-specific evolution was causally responsible...
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The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914

Janet Oppenheim - Science - 1985 - 536 pages
...comprehensive law to elucidate all the facts of change in the organic world. Wallace stated it simply: "Every species has come into existence coincident...and time with a preexisting closely allied species." The law was designed to explain the geographical distribution of animal and vegetable life over the...
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Ernst Mayr - Science - 1982 - 996 pages
...the species by affinity is also geographical." And this observation leads him to the law: Evenspecies has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. By stating either "in the same locality or in closely adjoining localities," Wallace obscured the strictly...
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 5, 1851-1855

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 762 pages
...distribution of animals and plants for many years. In his paper, he concluded that every species had come into existence coincident both in space and time with a preexisting closely allied species. CD scored Blyth's reference to the paper in the margin of the letter, but there is no indication when...
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