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m 14 ); 1859 1861 1866 1869 1872
m 14 ); 1860

(I) will have been 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869
species (I) will be 1872

z 14 ) 1859 1861 1866 1869 1872
z 14 1860

less and more improved
state
states
of
the same
a
species, as well as the original parent-species itself, will generally tend to become extinct. So it probably will be with many whole collateral lines of descent, which will be conquered by later and improved
lines.
lines
of
of
descent.
descent.
If, however, the modified offspring of a species get into some distinct country, or become quickly adapted to some quite new station, in which
child
offspring
and
parent
progenitor
do not come into competition, both may continue to exist.
If
If,
then
then,
our diagram be assumed to represent a considerable amount of modification, species (A) and all the earlier varieties will have become extinct,
being
having been
replaced by eight new species ( a 14 to m 14 ); and (I) will have been replaced by six ( n 14 to z 14 )
) new
new
species.
But we may go further than this. The original species of our genus were supposed to resemble each other in unequal degrees, as is so generally the case in nature; species (A) being more nearly related to B, C, and D, than to the other species; and species (I) more to G, H, K, L, than to the others. These two species (A) and
(I),
(I)
were also supposed to be very common and widely diffused species, so that they must originally have had some advantage over most of the other species of the genus. Their modified descendants, fourteen in number at the fourteen-thousandth generation, will probably have inherited some of the same
advantages;
advantages:
they have also been modified and improved in a diversified manner at each stage of descent, so as to have become adapted to many related places in the natural economy of their country. It seems, therefore,
to me
....
extremely probable that they will have taken the places of, and thus exterminated, not only their parents (A) and (I), but likewise some of the original species which were most nearly related to their parents. Hence very few of the