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    Pesky Details: Essays for "Left Brain" Christians

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      Chapter V - Laws of Variation

      Effects of the Increased Use and Disuse of Parts, Controlled by Natural Selection

      Acclimatisation

      Correlated Variation

      Multiple, Rudimentary, and Lowly-organised Structures Are Variable

      A Part Developed in Any Species in an Extraordinary Degree or Manner, in Comparison with the Same Part in Allied Species, Tends to be Highly Variable

      Specific Characters More Variable Than Generic Characters

      Secondary Sexual Characters Variable

      Distinct Species Present Analogous Variations, so that a Variety of One Species often Assumes a Character Proper to an Allied Species, or Reverts to some of the Characters of an Early Progenitor

      Chapter VI - Difficulties of the Theory

      On the Absence or Rarity of Transitional Varieties

      On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure

      Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication

      Modes of Transition

      Special Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection

      Organs of Little Apparent Importance, as Affected by Natural Selection

      Utilitarian Doctrine, How Far True: Beauty, How Acquired

      Chapter VII - Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection

      Chapter VIII - Instinct

      Inherited Changes of Habit or Instinct in Domesticated Animals

      Special Instincts

      Instincts of the Cuckoo

      Slave-making Instinct

      Cell-making Instinct of the Hive-bee

      Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects

      Chapter IX - Hybridism

      Degrees of Sterility

      Laws Governing the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids

      Origin and Causes of the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids

      Reciprocal Dimorphism and Trimorphism

      Fertility of Varieties when Crossed, and of their Mongrel Offspring, not Universal

      Hybrids and Mongrels Compared, Independently of their Fertility

      Chapter X - On the Imperfection of the Geological Record

      On the Lapse of Time, as Inferred from the Rate of Deposition and Extent of Denudation

      On the Poorness of Paleontological Collections

      On the Absence of Numerous Intermediate Varieties in Any Single Formation

      On the Sudden Appearance of Whole Groups of Allied Species

      On the Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species in the Lowest Known Fossiliferous Strata

      Chapter XI - On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings

      On Extinction

      On the Forms of Life Changing Almost Simultaneously throughout the World

      On the Affinities of Extinct Species to Each Other, and to Living Forms

      On the State of Development of Ancient Compared with Living Forms

      On the Succession of the Same Types within the Same Areas, during the later Tertiary Periods

      Chapter XII - Geographical Distribution

      Single Centres of Supposed Creation

      Means of Dispersal

      Dispersal during the Glacial Period+

      Alternate Glacial Periods in the North and South

      Chapter XIII - Geographical Distribution - Continued: Fresh-Water Productions

      On the Inhabitants of Oceanic Islands

      Absence of Batrachians and Terrestrial Mammals on Oceanic Islands

      On the Relations of the Inhabitants of Islands to Those of the Nearest Mainland

     
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