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chiefly or solely produced in Australia; or that Edentata and other American types should have been solely produced in South America. For we know that Europe in ancient times was peopled by
numerous
numberous
marsupials; and I have shown in the publications above alluded to, that in America the law of distribution of terrestrial mammals was formerly different from what it now is. North America formerly partook strongly of the present character of the southern half of the continent; and the southern half was formerly more closely allied, than it is at present, to the northern half. In a similar manner we
know
know,
from Falconer and
Cautleys
Cautley's
discoveries, that
Northern
northern
India was formerly more closely related in its mammals to Africa than it is at the present time. Analogous facts could be given in relation to the distribution of marine animals.
On the theory of descent with modification, the great law of the long enduring, but not immutable, succession of the same types within the same areas, is at once explained; for the inhabitants of each quarter of the world will obviously tend to leave in that quarter, during the next succeeding period of time, closely allied though in some degree modified descendants. If the inhabitants of one continent formerly differed greatly from those of another continent, so will their modified descendants still differ in nearly the same manner and degree. But after very long intervals of
time,
time
and after great geographical changes, permitting much
intermigration,
inter-migration,
the feebler will yield to the more dominant forms, and there will be nothing immutable in the
distribution
laws
of past and present distribution.
It may be asked in ridicule, whether I suppose that the megatherium and other allied huge
monsters,
monsters
have left behind them in South
America
America,
the sloth, armadillo, and anteater, as their degenerate descendants. This