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Introduction to evolution

Introduction to evolution
Ernst Haeckel · Public domain · source

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non-technical explanation of the basic concepts and principles of biological evolution

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  1. In the words of his translator, he "found that in its earliest stage, every organism has the greatest number of characters in common with all other organisms in their earliest stages; that at a stage somewhat later, its structure is like the structures displayed at corresponding phases by a less extensive multitude of organisms; that at each subsequent stage, traits are acquired which successively distinguished the…

    Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Volume 1

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  2. In respect to that progress which individual organisms display in the course of their evolution, this question has been answered by the Germans. The investigations of Wolff, Goethe, and Von Baer, have established the truth that the series of changes gone through during the development of a seed into a tree, or an ovum into an animal, constitute an advance from homogeneity of structure to heterogeneity of structure…

    Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects

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  3. In a general theory of evolution the inorganic comes first, then the lowest forms of animal and vegetable life, then forms of life that possess mentality, and finally those like ourselves that possess it in a high degree. As long as we keep to the consideration of purely outward facts, even the most complicated facts of biology, our task as evolutionists is comparatively easy.

    William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

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