The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids Are Fertilized By Insects
The book The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids Are Fertilized By Insects was written by author Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Here you can read free online of The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids Are Fertilized By Insects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids Are Fertilized By Insects a good or bad book?
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Besides these uses. Homology clears away the mist from such terms as the scheme of nature, ideal types, archetypal patterns or ideas, &c. ; for these terms come to express real facts. The naturalist," thus guided, sees that all homologous parts or organs, however much they may be diversified, are modifications of one and the same ancestral organ ; in tracing existing gradations he gains a clue in tracing, as far as that is possible, the probable course of modification through which beings have ...passed' during a long line of generations. He may feel assured that, whether he follows embryo-^ logical development, or searches for the merest rudi- ment, or traces gradations between the most different beings, he is pursuing the same object by different routes, and is tending towards the knowledge of the actual progenitor of the group, as it once grew and 234 HOMOLOGIES OF THE OllAP. VIII. lived. Thus the subject of Homology gains largely in interest. Although this subject, under whatever aspect it be viewed, will always be most interesting to the student of nature, it is very doubtful whether the following details on the homological nature of the flowers of Orchids will possess any interest for the general reader.
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