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Darwin showed the possibility of discovering the path which nature struck out in order to produce her endless variety of animal forms, and of detecting the means She has employed in her task. Hence first arose those efforts, so natural in the zoologist, to acquire some comprehension of the succession in time Of the different types in the animal kingdom, since all who recognise Darwin's teaching must regard it not as an arbitrary and lawless assemblage of independent Species, but, on the contrary, as a great family of organisms of which the individual members, whether living or extinct, are united by a real.
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- Publication date2019
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- ISBN 13 9781330228876
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- Number of pages496
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