| → I do not doubt that 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
| no doubt 1872 |
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| → increased in the successive generations. 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
| augmented. 1872 |
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| →
a
10
.
1859 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
|
a
10
.
1860 |
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| →
a
10
,
1859 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
|
a
10
1860 |
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| →
f
10
,
1859 1861 1866 1869 |
|
,
f
10
,
1860 |
|
f
10
1872 |
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| →
m
10
,
1859 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
|
m
10
1860 |
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| → OMIT 1869 1872 |
| or they may have arrived at the doubtful category of sub-species; 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
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| → doubtful or at last well-defined 1869 |
| well-defined 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
| doubtful or at last into well-defined 1872 |
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| →
m
14
,
1859 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
|
m
14
1860 |
|
|
diagram by some of the lower branches not reaching to the upper horizontal lines. In some cases
→I do not doubt that
the process of modification will be confined to a single line of descent, and the number of
descendants will not be increased; although the amount of divergent modification may have been
→increased in the successive generations. This case would be represented in the diagram, if all the lines proceeding from (A) were removed, excepting that from
a
1
to
→
a
10
.
In the same
the English race-horse and English pointer have apparently both gone on slowly diverging in character from their original stocks, without either having given off any fresh branches or races. |
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| After ten thousand generations, species (A) is supposed to have produced three forms,
→
a
10
,
→
f
10
,
and
→
m
10
,
from having diverged in character during the successive generations, will have come to differ largely, but perhaps unequally, from each other and from their common parent. If we suppose the amount of change between each horizontal line in our diagram to be excessively small, these three forms may still be only well-marked varieties;
→OMIT
but we have only to suppose the steps in the process of modification to be more numerous or greater in amount, to convert these three forms into
→doubtful or at last well-defined
the diagram illustrates the steps by which the small differences distinguishing varieties are increased into the larger differences distinguishing species. By continuing the same process for a greater number of generations (as shown in the diagram in a condensed and simplified manner), we get eight species, marked by the letters between
a
14
and
→
m
14
,
descended from (A). Thus, as I believe, species are multiplied and genera are formed. |
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| In a large genus it is probable that more than one
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