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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: will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this
day I can never reflect on them without being staggered; but, to the best
of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are
real are not, I think, fatal to my theory.
These difficulties and objections may be classed under the following
heads:- Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by
insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable
transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the
species being, as we see them, well defined?
Secondly, is it possible that an animal having, for instance, the structure
and habits of a bat, could have been formed by the modification of some
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