Origin of Species Variorum

→ Facts such as these, admit of 1869 1872

I believe this grand fact can receive 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ whether 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

from America, whether 1872

→ by 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

(though I do not believe in this doctrine) by 1872

→ the nearest 1869

other near 1859 1860 1861 1866

the nearest large 1872

→ although 1869 1872

the plants of 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ the plants are 1869 1872

are 1859 1860 1861 1866

the Pacific, distant several hundred miles from the continent,

~~yet~~

yet

feels that he is standing on American land. Why should this be so? why should the species which are supposed to have been created in the Galapagos Archipelago, and nowhere else, bear so

plainly

plain

the

stamp of affinity to those created in America? There is nothing in the conditions of life, in the geological nature of the islands, in their height or climate, or in the proportions in which the several classes are associated together, which

resembles closely

closely resembles

the conditions of the South American coast: in

fact

fact,

there is a considerable dissimilarity in all

these

the foregoing

respects. On the other hand, there is a considerable degree of resemblance in the

volanic

volcanic

nature of the soil, in

climate,

the climate,

height, and size of the islands, between the Galapagos and Cape de Verde

Archipelagos:

Archipelagoes:

but what an entire and absolute difference in their inhabitants! The inhabitants of the Cape de Verde Islands are related to those of Africa, like those of the Galapagos to America. →Facts such as these, admit of no sort of explanation on the ordinary view of independent

creation:

creation;

whereas on the view here maintained, it is obvious that the Galapagos Islands would be likely to receive

colonists

colonists,

→whether by occasional means of

trans- port

transport

or →by formerly continuous land,

~~from America;~~

from America;

and

....

the Cape de Verde Islands from Africa;

~~and that~~

and that

such colonists would be liable to

modification;—

modification,—

the principle of inheritance still betraying their original birthplace.

Many analogous facts could be given: indeed it is an almost universal rule that the endemic productions of islands are related to those of the nearest continent, or of →the nearest

islands.

island.

The exceptions are few, and most of them can be explained. Thus →although Kerguelen

Land,

Land

though standing

stands

nearer to Africa than to America, →the plants are related, and that very closely, as we