...present day by intermediate gradations, whereas species were formerly thus connected. Hence, without rejecting the consideration of the present existence...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names ; and in this case scientific and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shall have...

...present day by intermediate gradations, whereas species were formerly thus connected. Hence, without rejecting the consideration of the present existence...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names ; and in this case scientific and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shall have...

...connected at the present day by intermediate gradations, whereas species were formerly thus connected. It is quite possible that forms now generally acknowledged...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names*.' If Darwin had attempted, as was formerly the fashion, to give a formal definition of variety, species,...

...connected at the present day by intermediate gradations, whereas species were formerly thus connected. It is quite possible that forms now generally acknowledged...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names." l If Darwin had attempted, as was formerly the fashion, to give a formal definition of variety, species,...

...connected at the present day by intermediate gradations, whereas species were formerly thus connected. It is quite possible that forms now generally acknowledged...varieties may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names3.' If Darwin had attempted, as was formerly the fashion, to give a formal definition of variety,...

...present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected. Hence, without rejecting the consideration of the present existence...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names ; and in this case scientific and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shall have...

...gradations, whereas species were formerly thus connected. Hence, without rejecting the considerations of the present existence of intermediate gradations...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names; and in this case scientific and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shall have...

...present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected. Hence, without rejecting the consideration of the present existence...may hereafter be thought worthy of specific names ; and in this case scientific and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shall have...

...Roger 1989, pp. 392-401. 8 CD refers to the passage in Origin, p. 485, in which he stated that some 'forms now generally acknowledged to be merely varieties...specific names, as with the primrose and cowslip'. For CD's attempts to balance the requirements of taxonomic nomenclature with his views on the genealogical...

...And here is Darwin concluding his arguments about the arbitrariness of the conventional separation of species: "Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge...higher the actual amount of difference between them" (Origin, p. 45). Darwin talks of species; Trollope talks of individuals. But the thrust toward fine...