...to this plant—releasing light in the process. (Courtesy of Visuals Unlimited.) Molecular Biology All living things have much in common, in their chemical...their cellular structure, and their laws of growth reproduction. Hiere/ore I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on...

...acceptance or rejection of Darwin. Referring to the Darwinian analogical inference that (in Darwin's words) "probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed," Dawson remarked: We may well ask what is...

...the offspring of a common progenitor: All animals and plants are descended from some one prototype All living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their cellular structure, their laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences Certain low forms...

...from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide . . . [however, all things considered] I should infer from analogy that probably all the...earth have descended from some one primordial form. (Darwin 1964: 483-4l That, then, is a thumbnail sketch of the theory of evolution - the claim that...

...and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical...structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants...

...modification', with natural selection acting to preserve adaptive modifications, and he proposed (p. 455) that "probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth may be descended from some one primordial form." All species, therefore, had their origin in this one...

...superfamilies. plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their cellular structure, their laws ofgrowth and their liability to injurious influences. We see this even...

...Michael Adams (New York: Taylor and Francis. 1998). 19-31. 73. Darwin had reasoned that "probably all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species,...

...Charles Darwin's marvelous book The Origin of Species, in which he speculated that "probably all of the organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth have descended from some one primordial form," Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Hooker that It is often said that all the conditions for the first...

...of Life? (New York, Taylor and Francis, 1998), 19-31. 183. Darwin had reasoned that, "probably all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species, with...