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420 ORIGIN OF SPECIES
In Africa, several forms characteristic of Europe and some
few representatives of the flora of the Cape of Good Hope
occur on the mountains of Abyssinia. At the Cape of Good
Hope a very few European species, beHeved not to have been
introduced by man, and on the mountains several representa-
tive European forms are found, which have not been dis-
covered in the intertropical parts of Africa. Dr. Hooker
has also lately shown that several of the plants living on the
upper parts of the lofty island of Fernando Po and on the
neighbouring Cameroon mountains, in the Gulf of Guinea,
are closely related to those on the mountains of Abyssinia,
and likewise to those of temperate Europe. It now also
appears, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, that some of these same
temperate plants have been discovered by the Rev. R. T.
Lowe on the mountains of the Cape Verde islands. This
extension of the same temperate forms, almost under the
equator, across the whole continent of Africa and to the
mountains of the Cape Verde archipelago, is one of the most
astonishing facts ever recorded in the distribution of plants.
On the Himalaya, and on the isolated mountain-ranges of
the peninsula of India, on the heights of Ceylon, and on the
volcanic cones of Java, many plants occur, either identically
the same or representing each other, and at the same time
representing plants of Europe, not found in the intervening
hot lowlands. A list of the genera of plants collected on
the loftier peaks of Java, raises a picture of a collection made
on a hillock in Europe ! Still more striking is the fact that
peculiar Australian forms are represented by certain plants
growing on the summits of the mountains of Borneo. Some
of these Australian forms, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, ex-
tend along the heights of the peninsula of Malacca, and are
thinly scattered on the one hand over India, and on the other
hand as far north as Japan.
On the southern mountains of Australia, Dr. F. Miiller has
discovered several European species; other species, not in-
troduced by man, occur on the lowlands
; and a long list can
be given, as I am informed by Dr. Hooker, of European
genera, found in Australia, but not in the intermediate torrid
regions. In the admirable 'Introduction to the Flora of New
Zealand/ by Dr. Hooker, analogous and striking facts are
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The Origin of Species
- Titel
- The Origin of Species
- Autor
- Charles Darwin
- Verlag
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Ort
- New York
- Datum
- 1909
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 10.5 x 16.4 cm
- Seiten
- 568
- Schlagwörter
- Evolutionstheorie, Evolution, Theory of Evolution, Naturwissenschaft, Natural Sciences
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 5
- AN HISTORICAL SKETCH of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species 9
- INTRODUCTION 21
- Variation under Domestication 25
- Variation under Nature 58
- Struggle for Existence 76
- Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest 93
- Laws of Variation 145
- Difficulties of the Theory 178
- Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 219
- Instinct 262
- Hybridism 298
- On the Imperfection of the Geological Record 333
- On the Geological Succession of Organic Beinss 364
- Geographical Distribution 395
- Geographical Distribution - continued 427
- Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs 450
- Recapitulation and Conclusion 499
- GLOSSARY 531
- INDEX 541