...branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs ; and this connection of the former...living species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the*many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great...

...tend to transmit to their modified offspring that superiority which now makes them dominant in their own countries. Natural selection, as has just been...all extinct and living species in groups subordinate jo groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now...

...overtop and kill the surrounding twigs ami branches, in the same manner as species and groups of specie have at all times overmastered other species in the...mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branclies i yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past...

...by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species into groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which...now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches; so with the species which have lived during long-past geological periods, very...

...young, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may_ well represent the classification of all extinct and...groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which once flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet...

...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs; and this connection of former and present buds by ramifying branches may...and living species in groups subordinate to groups." Darwin recognized that one basis for resistance to discontinuity was the strong desire among seventeenth-...

...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs ; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into groat branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches ; so with the species which lived during...

...and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches ; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very...

...during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species . . . and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...and living species in groups subordinate to groups. One might well ask who before had used the simile of "a great tree". One answer is certainly "Alfred...

...and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few...