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CHAPTER VIII.. _homologies._

On the Genesis of Species · St. George Jackson Mivart — chapter 8 of 25 · ~64 words · public domain

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HOMOLOGIES.

Animals made up of parts mutually related in various ways.--What homology 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 teratology.--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 ... Page 155

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