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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

... destroyed by beasts of prey: even the tiger in India most rarely dares to attack a young elephant protected by its dam. Climate plays an important pa... ...far more from a certain disease than yellow plums; whereas another disease attacks yellow-fleshed peaches far more than those with other coloured fles... ...s deer, and the other more bulky, with shorter legs, which more frequently attacks the shepherd’s flocks. Let us now take a more complex case. Certain... ...e down on fruit and the colour of the flesh, which, from de- termining the attacks of insects or from being corre- lated with constitutional differenc... ...elated. A good observer, also, states that in cattle susceptibility to the attacks of flies is correlated with colour, as is the liability to be poi- ... ...f we compare the older Reptiles and Batrachians, the older Fish, the older Cephalopods, and the eocene Mammals, with the more recent members of the sa... ...n has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, ‘there is no meta- morphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo ar... ...Indian and European breeds Cave, inhabitants of, blind Centres of creation Cephalopodae, development of Cervulus Cetacea, teeth and hair Ceylon, plant... ...on affinities of the dugong; on homologous organs; on the metamorphosis of cephalopods and spiders Pacific Ocean, faunas of Paley, on no organ formed ...

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