On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

CHAPTER 11. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.

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Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differences in physical conditions. Importance of barriers. Affinity of the productions of the same continent. Centres of creation. Means of dispersal, by changes of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means. Dispersal during the Glacial period co-extensive with the world.