Origin of Species Variorum

→ and females to different habits of life, or the males 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

OMIT 1872

→ the species possess in common;— 1859 1860 1861

the species possess in common; — 1866 1869

are possessed by all the species;— 1872

→ these same characters between 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

OMIT 1872

→ having descended from 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

being the descendants of 1872

→ thus 1859

having been thus 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872

order to fit the several species to their several places in the economy of nature, and likewise to fit the two sexes of the same species to each other, or to fit the males →and females to different habits of life, or the males to struggle with other males for the possession of the females.

Finally, then, I conclude that the greater variability of specific characters, or those which distinguish species from species, than of generic characters, or those which →the species possess in common;— that the frequent extreme variability of any part which is developed in a species in an extraordinary manner in comparison with the same part in its congeners; and the

slight

not great

degree of variability in a part, however extraordinarily it may be developed, if it be common to a whole group of

species; —

species;—

that the great variability of secondary sexual characters, and

their

the

great

~~amount of~~

amount of

difference in →these same characters between closely allied

species; —

species;—

that secondary sexual and ordinary specific differences are generally displayed in the same parts of the

organisation, —

organisation,—

are all principles closely connected together. All being mainly due to the species of the same group →having descended from a common progenitor, from whom they have inherited much in

common, —

common,—

to parts which have recently and largely varied being more likely still to go on varying than parts which have long been inherited and have not

varied, —

varied—

varied,—

to natural selection having more or less completely, according to the lapse of time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further

variability, —

variability,—

to sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary

selection, —

selection,—

and to variations in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection, and →thus adapted for secondary sexual, and for ordinary

~~specific~~

specific

purposes.