...classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings ; and we have to discover and...characters of any kind which have long been inherited. Eudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to the nature of long-lost structures. Species...

...classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings ; and we have to discover and...living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the aucieut forms of life. Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the...

...classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and...in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life. Embryology will often reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each...

...to me to become ennobled.' Lineage escapes from class and then from kind: 'We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and...characters of any kind which have long been inherited.' (Beer 1986: 222-3) Man, Beer suggests, is the determining absence in Darwin's account of the origin...

...classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and...in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life. Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great...

...classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and...Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to die nature of long-lost structures. Species and groups of species, which are called aberrant, and which...

...already recorded species. Our classifications will come to be, as far as they be so made, genealogies ... we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies . . . Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to the nature of long lost structures ....

...As Darwin put it, Our classification will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies... we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines...characters of any kind which have long been inherited. This question of exact genealogy, or phylogeny, among the many different groups of organisms was not,...

...classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and...called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture ot the ancient forms of life. Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured,...

...Britain on acid-free paper by Biddies Ltd, Guildford & King's Lynn V T\^n Preface We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and...characters of any kind which have long been inherited. Charles Darwin (1 872} This book deals with a fundamental problem that has been of interest since Charles...