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" ... equally evident that neither the action of the surrounding conditions, nor the will of the organisms (especially in the case of plants) could account for the innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits... "
From the Greeks to Darwin: An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea - Page 234
by Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 259 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...adaptations, and until these could be explained it seemed to be almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified. Thus...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 420 pages
...life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal byhooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and...
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Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, L.L.D.

William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1888 - 584 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...prove by indirect evidence that species have been modif1ed. perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July 1837. I worked...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1888 - 572 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life ; for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...had always been much struck by such adaptations, and nutil these could be explained it seemed to me almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence...
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a ...

Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the...
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Darwiniana: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life ; for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified." (I. p. 82.) The facts to which reference is here made were, without doubt, eminently fitted to attract...
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