The Refutation of Darwinism, and the Converse Theory of Development

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Excerpt from The Refutation of Darwinism, and the Converse Theory of Development: Based Exclusively Upon Darwin's Facts, and Comprising Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of the Phenomena of Variation, Of Reversion, Of Correlation, Of Crossing, Of Close-Interbreeding, Of the Reproduction of Lost Members, Of the Repair of Injuries The variation, modification, or improvement, occurring under domestication, Darwin represents truly, as matter of fact, to be very great. It is proved, by 'him, con clusively, that there 'is scarcely any part of the organ ization of any individual of any Species of plant or ani mal, under domestication, which is not susceptible of some, and, in the majority of instances, of great modi fication. Even the bones, and the internal organs the liver, the kidneys, the vertebra, the reproductive organs, the oesoph gus, the intestinal canal - have been shown to be great ~y modified. Cases of increase, and of decrease in the number of the vertebrae, have been demonstrated to be of frequent occurrence. There are improvements, or variations, in the legs, in the tongue, in the eyes, in the skin, in the hair, in the feathers, in the hoofs, in the horns, in the tail, and in the wings. There are the greatest variations in the head. Even the teeth have varied greatly, in number, size, and other Characters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.