Varieties

Examples

• I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In this respect, therefore, the species of the larger genera resemble varieties, more than do the species of the smaller genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In genera having more than the average number of species in any country, the species of these genera have more than the average number of varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If, then, it varied, natural selection would probably favour different varieties in the different islands. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He studied the sp ecies in their natural setting, the habitat, and range, and habits, and food of the different varieties. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In one district several varieties occurred, and of these one alone resembled, to a certain extent, the common Ithomia of the same district. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• No; but it can give varieties of pain, and prevent us from breaking our hearts with a single tyrant master-torture. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There are several varieties, as the Irish greyhound, the Scottish, the Russian, the Italian and the Turkish. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By careful selection, many strange varieties have been propagated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was a work of genius, yet no one would claim that it is a mature psychology of the Varieties of Religious Experience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The amazingly large number of different varieties which we have today have all been brought into existence through the discovery of the process of grafting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Even Ireland has a few animals, now generally regarded as varieties, but which have been ranked as species by some zoologists. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There are other excellent varieties of vanilla beans, but they have a somewhat ranker flavor than the Mexican. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Moreover, in the case of animals which wander much about and cross freely, their varieties seem to be generally confined to distinct regions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• From these facts it can no longer be maintained that varieties when crossed are invariably quite fertile. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Hence the amount of difference is one very important criterion in settling whether two forms should be ranked as species or varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Varieties generally have much restricted ranges. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Sounds of all kinds and varieties were heard in every direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So I believe it to be with varieties of plants; and with animals, one variety certainly often has this prepotent power over another variety. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Oh the varieties of dust for ocular use, offered in exchange for the gold dust of the Golden Dustman! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Different varieties, if not species, characterize the different islands. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Of such local varieties there must have been a great multitude. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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