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Superclass
Agnatha
In
development: Animal
Phyla in the tree of life Lagerstatte
Lagerstatten
Fossil
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Formation Process - A Crinoid Story
Missing blank pages: Eukaryote
Brachiopoda
Not
Yet Linked
Phyla
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Anthozoa
Ordovician
Streptelasma rusticum Coral Fossil
An
Entangled Bank. From the conclusion of
Darwin's Origin of Species First Edition (1859)
It
is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,
clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing
on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and
with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect
that these elaborately constructed forms, so different
from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex
a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around
us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth
with Reproduction; inheritance which is almost implied
by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct
action of the external conditions of life, and from use
and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to
a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection,
entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of
less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from
famine and death, the most exalted object which we are
capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher
animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view
of life, with its several powers, having been originally
breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst
this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed
law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms
most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being,
evolved.
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