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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: to arrive, would be sure to germinate and survive.
Dispersal during the Glacial period. -- The identity of many plants and
animals, on mountain-summits, separated from each other by hundreds of
miles of lowlands, where the Alpine species could not possibly exist, is
one of the most striking cases known of the same species living at distant
points, without the apparent possibility of their having migrated from one
to the other. It is indeed a remarkable fact to see so many of the same
plants living on the snowy regions of the Alps or Pyrenees, and in the
extreme northern parts of Europe; but it is far more remarkable, that the
plants on the White Mountains, in the United States of America, are all the
same with those of Labrador, and nearly all the same, as we hear from Asa
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