The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection; Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life 2
The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection; Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life 2
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
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But morphology is a much* more complex subject than it at first appears, as has lately been well shown in a remarkable paper by Mr. E. Eay Lankester, who has drawn an important distinction between certain classes of cases which have all been equally ranked by naturalists as homologous. He proposes to call the structures which resemble each other in distinct ani- mals, owing to their descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification, homogenous; and the re- semblances which cannot th...us be accounted for, he pro- poses to call homoplastic. For instance, he believes that the hearts of birds and mammals are as a whole homo- genous, — ^that is, have been derived from a common pro- genitor; but that the four cavities of the heart in the two classes are homoplastic, — ^that is, have been inde- pendently developed. Mr. Lankester also adduces the close resemblance of the parts on the right and left sides 238 MORPHOLOGY. [Chap. XIV. of the body, and in the successive segments of the same individual animal; and here we have parts commonly called homologous, which bear no relation to the descent of distinct species from a common progenitor.
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