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resemble each other much more closely than do the adults,— just as we have seen with the breeds of the pigeon. We may extend this view to widely distinct structures and to whole classes. The fore-limbs, for instance, which once served as legs to a remote progenitor, may have become, through a long course of modification, adapted in one descendant to act as hands, in another as paddles, in another as wings; but on the above two principles the fore-limbs will not have been much modified in the embryos of these several forms; although in each the embryonic fore-limb will differ greatly from that in the adult. Whatever influence, moreover, long-continued use or disuse may have had in modifying the limbs or other parts of animals, this will chiefly or solely have affected them when mature and when they had to use their full powers ... to gain their own living; and the effect thus produced will be transmitted to the offspring at a corresponding mature age. Thus the young will not be modified or will be modified in a less degree.
In other cases .. successive variations may have supervened at a very early period of life, or the steps may have been inherited at an earlier age than that at which they first occurred. In either case, as we have seen with the short-faced tumbler, the young or embryo would closely resemble the mature parent-form. And this is the rule of development in certain whole groups or sub-groups, as with cuttle-fish, land-shells, fresh-water crustaceans, spiders, and some members of the great class of insects. .. .. .. With respect to the final cause of the young in these groups not passing through any metamorphosis, ... we can see that this would follow from the .. following contingencies; namely, from the young ... having to provide