...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...and living species in groups subordinate to groups. ... So by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and...

...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...and living species in groups subordinate to groups. ([1859] 1964, 129) Today, most everyone with some exposure to the biological sciences knows about evolutionary...

...into great branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...and living species in groups subordinate to groups. ... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all...

...forms of life. In a memorable passage he compares the evolution of life to the growth of a great tree. The affinities of all the beings of the same class...branches may well represent the classification of all living and extinct species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when...

...<j t_ ' \ o s ? f. " s 1 lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and...extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.2 Darwin presented the image of this treelike schema of descent in chapter 4 of the Origin of...

...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs, and this connection to the former and present buds by ramifying branches...and living species in groups subordinate to groups." 21 The tree of life has been a standard depiction of evolution ever since. 22 Built into that model,...

...themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and the present buds by ramifying branches may well represent...classification of all extinct and living species in groups and subordinate to groups. ..From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed...

...terrestrial figure in this way: The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, . . . may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species From the first growth of the tree, many fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop...

...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...

...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...living species in groups subordinate to groups.... From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off, and these lost...