Origin of Species Variorum

→ could 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

(crossing being prevented) could 1872

→ half a dozen 1859

half-a-dozen 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872

→ like 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

in the same manner as 1872

→ sorted. 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

preserved in due proportion. 1872

←Subtitle not present 1859 1860 1861 Struggle for Life most severe between Individuals and Varieties of the same Species. 1866 1869 1872

→ species of the same genus, when 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

them, if 1872

→ climates! 1859 1860 1861 1866

climates! In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener. 1869 1872

↑ 1 blocks not present in 1859 1860 1861; present in 1866 1869 1872

In Australia the imported hive-bee is rapidly exterminating the small, stingless native bee.

→ will 1859 1860 1861

has been known to 1866 1869 1872

otherwise the weaker kinds will steadily decrease in

number

numbers

and disappear. So again with the varieties of

sheep;

sheep:

it has been asserted that certain mountain-varieties will starve out other mountain-varieties, so that they cannot be kept together. The same result has followed from keeping together different varieties of the medicinal leech. It may even be doubted whether the varieties of any

~~one~~

one

of our domestic plants or animals have so exactly the same strength, habits, and constitution, that the original proportions of a mixed stock →could be kept up for →half a dozen generations, if they were allowed to struggle together, →like beings in a state of nature, and if the seed or young were not annually →sorted. →

the species

species

of the same genus

usually have,

have usually,

though by no means invariably,

much

some

similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will generally be more severe between →species of the same genus, when they come into competition with each other, than between

the species

species

of distinct genera. We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United States of one species of swallow having caused the decrease of another species. The recent increase of the missel-thrush in parts of Scotland has caused the decrease of the song-thrush. How frequently we hear of one species of rat taking the place of another species under the most different →climates! In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener. ↑ One species of charlock →will supplant

another

another,

species; and

and

so in other cases. We can dimly see why the competition should be most severe between allied forms, which fill nearly the same place in the economy of nature; but probably in no one case could we precisely say why one species has been victorious over another in the great battle of life.