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→ OMIT 1866
the Action of 1869
the Action of 1872
→ Extinction, 1866
Extinction, 1869
Extinction , 1872
→ ought to have 1859 1860 1861 1866
has 1869 1872
→ we have seen 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869
as we saw 1872
→ of the species of 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869
species vary in 1872
→ do the rare and restricted species. 1866 1869 1872
rare species with restricted ranges. 1859 1860 1861
→ branching and 1866 1869 1872
little fan of 1859 1860 1861
and feebly representing, as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked, our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent mammals, could successfully compete with these
well-developed
well-pronounced
orders. In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and incomplete stage of development.
The
The
Probable
Probable
Results
Effects
Action
of
of
→OMIT
Natural
Natural
Selection
Selection
Selection,
through
through
Divergence
Divergence
of
of
Character
Character
and
and
→ Extinction,
in
on
the
the
Descendants
Descendants
of
of
a
a
Common
Common
Ancestor.
Ancestor.
Ancestor.
After the foregoing discussion, which →ought to have been much
compressed,
amplified,
we
may,
may
I think,
....
assume that the modified descendants of any one species will succeed
by
by
so much the better as they become more diversified in structure, and are thus enabled to encroach on places occupied by other beings. Now let us see how this principle of
great
....
benefit being derived from divergence of character, combined with the principles of natural selection and of extinction,
will
....
tend
tends
to act.
The accompanying diagram will aid us in understanding this rather perplexing subject. Let A to L represent the species of a genus large in its own country; these species are supposed to resemble each other in unequal
degrees,
degress,
as is so generally the case in nature, and as is represented in the diagram by the letters standing at unequal distances. I have said a large genus, because →we have seen in the second chapter,
that
that
on an average more →of the species of large genera
vary
vary
than
in
of
small genera; and the varying species of the large genera present a greater number of varieties. We have, also, seen that the species, which are the commonest and the most
widely-diffused,
widely diffused,
vary more than →do the rare and restricted species. Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused, and varying species, belonging to a genus large in its own country. The →branching and