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Credit: On the genesis of the species / by St. George Mivart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![South America; to China and Australia ; to North America and China; to I>Io\v Zoahiud and Soutli America ; to South Amoi ica and Tasmania ; to South America and Australia.—Pleurodont lizards.—In- sectivorous mammals.—Similarity of European and South American I'rof^s.—Anaio(,ry between European salmon and fi.she.s of New Zealand, &c.—An ancient Antarctic continent proljaLle.—Other modes of ac- counting for facts of distribution.—Independent origin of clo.sely similar forms,—Conclusion /'f/'-144 CHAPTER VIII. HOMOLOGIES. .Animals made up of parts mutually related in various waj's.—AVhat homo- logy is.—Its various kinds.—Serial homology.—Lateral homology.— Vertical homology.—Mr. Herbert Spencer's explanations.—An internal power necessary, as shown by facts of comparative anatomy.—Of ter- atology.—M. St. Hilaire.—Professor Burt Wilder.—Foot-wings.—Facts of pathology.—Mr. James Paget.—Dr. William Budd.—The existence of such an internal power of individual development diminishes the improbability of an analogous law of specific origination . Pd^fe 155 CHAPTER IX. EVOLUTION AND ETHICS. The origin of morals an inquiry not foreign to the subject of this book. - Modern utilitarian view as to that origin.—Mr. Darwin's speculation as to the origin of the abhorrence of incest.—Cause assigned by him insufficient.—Care of the aged and infirm oppo.sed by Natural Selec- tion; also self-abnegation and asceticism.-Distinctness of the ideas righc and useful.—]Mr. John Stuart Mill.—Insufliciency of Natural Selection to account for the origin of the distinction between duty • and profit.—Distinction of moral acts into materia! and formal.—No](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954471_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
