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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: seems to have played a most important part, so that when one part has been
modified other parts are necessarily modified. In both varieties and
species reversions to long-lost characters occur. How inexplicable on the
theory of creation is the occasional appearance of stripes on the shoulder
and legs of the several species of the horse-genus and in their hybrids!
How simply is this fact explained if we believe that these species have
descended from a striped progenitor, in the same manner as the several
domestic breeds of pigeon have descended from the blue and barred
rock-pigeon!
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, why
should the specific characters, or those by which the species of the same
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