alliance of many others, on the most distant mountains,
and in the northern and southern temperate zones; and in the northern and southern temperate zones; 1866 1869 1872 |
under the most different climates; 1859 1860 1861 |
and likewise the close alliance of some of the inhabitants of the sea in the northern and southern temperate
latitudes, latitudes, 1866 1869 1872 | zones, 1859 1860 1861 |
though separated by the whole intertropical ocean. Although two
countries countries 1861 1866 1869 1872 | areas 1859 1860 |
may present
....... 1861 1866 1869 1872 | the same 1859 1860 |
physical conditions
as closely similar as the same species ever require, as closely similar as the same species ever require, 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
of life, 1859 1860 |
we need feel no surprise at their inhabitants being widely different, if they have been for a long period completely
sundered sundered 1861 1866 1869 1872 | separated 1859 1860 |
from each other; for as the relation of organism to organism is the most important of all relations, and as the two
countries countries 1861 1866 1869 1872 | areas 1859 1860 |
will have received colonists
...OMIT 1869 1872 |
from some third source or from each other, 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
at various periods and in different proportions,
from some other country or from each other, the from some other country or from each other, the 1869 1872 |
the 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
course of modification in the two areas will inevitably
have been have been 1861 1866 1869 1872 | be 1859 1860 |
different. |
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On this view of migration, with subsequent modification, we
....... 1866 1869 1872 | can 1859 1860 1861 |
see why oceanic islands
are are 1866 1869 1872 | should be 1859 1860 1861 |
inhabited by
only few only few 1866 1869 1872 | few 1859 1860 1861 |
species, but of these,
why why 1866 1869 1872 | that 1859 1860 1861 |
many
are peculiar or endemic forms. are peculiar or endemic forms. 1866 1869 1872 |
should be peculiar. 1859 1860 1861 |
We
....... 1866 1869 1872 | can 1859 1860 1861 |
clearly see why
species belonging to those groups of species belonging to those groups of 1869 1872 |
those 1859 1860 1861 |
species of those groups of 1866 |
animals which cannot cross wide spaces of
the ocean, the ocean, 1869 1872 | ocean, 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
as frogs and terrestrial mammals,
do do 1866 1869 1872 | should 1859 1860 1861 |
not inhabit oceanic islands; and why, on the other hand, new and peculiar species of bats,
animals which animals which 1861 1866 1869 1872 | which 1859 1860 |
can traverse the ocean,
are so often are so often 1866 1869 |
should so often be 1859 1860 1861 |
are often 1872 |
found on islands far distant from any continent. Such
cases cases 1869 1872 | facts 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
as the presence of peculiar species of
bats bats 1869 1872 | bats, 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
on oceanic islands, and on oceanic islands, and 1869 |
and 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
on oceanic islands and 1872 |
the absence of all other
terrestrial mammals, are facts terrestrial mammals, are facts 1869 1872 |
mammals, on oceanic islands, are 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
utterly inexplicable on the theory of independent acts of creation. |
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The existence of closely allied or representative species in any two areas, implies, on the theory of descent with modification, that the same
parent-forms parent-forms 1869 1872 | parents 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
formerly inhabited both
areas; areas; 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | areas: 1872 |
and we almost invariably find that wherever many closely allied species inhabit two
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