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a new area, they 1859 1860 1861
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between our consecutive formations; and in these intervals there may have been much slow extermination. Moreover,
when,
when
by sudden immigration or by unusually rapid development, many species of a new group have taken possession of a new area, they will have
been exterminated
exterminated
in a correspondingly rapid
manner;
manner
many of the old inhabitants; and the forms which thus yield their places will commonly be allied, for they will partake of
the same
some
inferiority in common.
Thus, as it seems to me, the manner in which single species and whole groups of species become
extinct
extinct,
accords well with the theory of natural selection. We need not marvel at extinction; if we must marvel, let it be at our
own presumption
presumption
in imagining for a moment that we understand the many complex
contingencies
contingencies,
on which the existence of each species depends. If we forget for an instant, that each species tends to increase inordinately, and that some check is always in action, yet seldom perceived by us, the whole economy of nature will be utterly obscured. Whenever we can precisely say why this species is more abundant in individuals than that; why this species and not another can be naturalised in a given country; then, and not
until
till
then, we may justly feel surprise why we cannot account for the extinction of
any
this
particular species or
any group
group
of species.
On
On
the
the
Forms
Forms
of
of
Life
Life
changing
changing
almost
almost
simultaneously
simultaneously
throughout
throughout
the
the
World .—
World.
World .
World.
Scarcely any palæontological discovery is more striking than the fact, that the forms of life change almost simultaneously throughout the world. Thus our European Chalk formation can be recognised in many distant parts of the world, under the most different climates, where not a fragment of the mineral chalk itself can be found;
namely
namely,
in North