Biology
Several months ago I published in the _Fortnightly Review_ a lecture, which I had previously delivered at the Philosophical Institutions of Edinburgh and Birmingham, and which bore the above title. The late Mr. Darwin thought well of the epitome of his doctrine which the lectu...
The argument from geology is the argument from the distribution of species in time. I will, therefore, next take the argument from the distribution of species in space--that is,...
2. Chapter 2Now, since the days of Linnæus this principle has been carefully followed, and it is by its aid that the tree-like system of classification has been established. No one, even lo...
1. Chapter 1Several months ago I published in the _Fortnightly Review_ a lecture, which I had previously delivered at the Philosophical Institutions of Edinburgh and Birmingham, and which b...
4. Chapter 4This consideration is that amid all the millions of mechanisms and instincts in the animal kingdom, there is no one instance of a mechanism or instinct occurring in one species...