| → some still 1866 1869 |
| many 1859 1860 1861 |
| some closely allied, still 1872 |
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| → of some tertiary closely allied 1866 1869 |
| tertiary representative 1859 1860 1861 |
| extinct tertiary 1872 |
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| → these two areas being now completely 1866 1869 1872 |
| areas now 1859 1860 1861 |
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| → the breadth of a whole 1866 1869 1872 |
| a 1859 1860 1861 |
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| → a wide space of 1866 1869 |
| nearly a hemisphere of equatorial 1859 1860 1861 |
| wide spaces of 1872 |
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| → close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores 1869 1872 |
| relationship, without identity, of the inhabitants of seas now disjoined, and likewise of the past and present inhabitants of the temperate lands 1859 1860 1861 |
| close relationship in many species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores 1866 |
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| → the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and 1866 1869 1872 |
| and 1859 1860 1861 |
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| → parts of South Africa or Australia, 1866 1869 1872 |
| the southern continents of the Old World, 1859 1860 1861 |
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Worlds, we find very few identical species (though Asa Gray has lately shown that more plants are identical than was formerly supposed), but we find in every great class many forms, which some naturalists rank as geographical races, and others as distinct species; and a host of closely allied or representative forms which are ranked by all naturalists as specifically distinct. |
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| As on the land, so in the waters of the sea, a slow southern migration of a marine fauna,
during the Pliocene or even a somewhat earlier period, was nearly uniform along the continuous shores of the Polar Circle, will account, on the theory of modification, for many closely allied forms now living in
completely sundered. Thus, I think, we can understand the presence of
→some still
existing and
→of some tertiary closely allied
on the eastern and western shores of temperate North America; and the still more striking
of many closely allied crustaceans (as described in
admirable work),
some fish and other marine animals,
the Mediterranean and
the seas of Japan,—
→these two areas being now completely
separated by
→the breadth of a whole
continent and by
→a wide space of
ocean. |
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| These cases of
→close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores
of North
→the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and
Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot
that
have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with
→parts of South Africa or Australia,
we see countries closely
in all their physical conditions,
with
inhabitants utterly
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