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From: Kishel L. <phi...@ak...> - 2009-09-04 15:48:59
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Ontinuously exerted in the same direction, and not, as Darwin held, by accidental variations. His theory rests on observations of the highest interest, of which the starting-point was the study of the course followed by the color variation of the skin in certain lizards. Before this, the already old experiments of Dorfmeister had shown that the same chrysalis, according as it was submitted to cold or heat, gave rise to very different butterflies, which had long been regarded as independent species, _Vanessa levana_ and _Vanessa prorsa_: an intermediate temperature produces an intermediate form. We might class with these facts the important transformations observed in a little crustacean, _Artemia salina_, when the salt of the water it lives in is increased or diminished.[32] In these various experiments the external agent seems to act as a cause of transformation. But what does the word "cause" mean here? Without undertaking an exhaustive analysis of the |