Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology—Embryology—Rudimentary Organs
Classification.
From the most remote period in the history of the world organic beings have been found to resembl...
Analogical Resemblances.
We can understand why a species or a group of species may depart from its allies, in several of i...
On the Nature of the Affinities Connecting Organic Beings.
As the modified descendants of dominant species, belonging to the larger genera, tend to inherit ...
Morphology.
We have seen that the members of the same class, independently of their habits of life, resemble ...
Development and Embryology.
This is one of the most important subjects in the whole round of natural history. The metamorphos...
Rudimentary, Atrophied, and Aborted Organs.
Organs or parts in this strange condition, bearing the plain stamp of inutility, are extremely co...
Summary.
In this chapter I have attempted to show that the arrangement of all organic beings throughout al...