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could 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869
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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

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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

sweet-peas, they must be each year harvested separately, and the seed then mixed in due
propor- tion,
proportion,
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.
As
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;