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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THEORIES OF HEREDITY AND VARIATION. The persistency with which heredity acts in preserving the peculiarities of races and individuals through many generations, and the ever present variations of these peculiarities have given rise to many diverse theories to account for their relationship to each other. Like produces like is a very old saying, and when we consider that the offspring comes directly from the parent, it is difficult to conceive that it would be anything other than that from which it came. We can imagine how the same thing may at certain times take different forms, but not how one thing may become another thing unless it be through the total destruction of the first thing. Thus we may have water now as ice, again as steam, and at another time as snow, but under each and every form it is water. It can be transformed into some other substance only by decomposition and the recombination of its constituent elements with some other elements. Likewise a being descended from a human being can be no other than human. He can be transmuted into a plant only by disintegration and reabsorption. Inheritance being simply an expression for the fact that the deriven is like that from which it is derived, is self-evident and needs no explanation. Variation, on the contrary, being something different from what is apparently self-evident, demands an explanation of when, where and how it arises. VARIATION DEFINED. The word variation, as used in biology, represents two distinct conditions or operations: First, the appearance of an entirelyNAPOLEON [23]BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [51]new organ or character; and second, a change, more or less marked, in some organ or character already in existence. It is in this second sense in which the word will be principally used, and ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217823067
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217823068
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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