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Example sentences for "intermediate forms"

  • Crimea and Rhodes, they vary so much in colour, that the several geographical races can be closely connected by intermediate forms.

  • The remaining pupæ were kept in a light room where 3 Telamonides emerged the following day, and by September 4th 14 specimens of the same variety had emerged, but no Marcellus or intermediate forms.

  • Intermediate forms (Porima), artificially bred from the first summer generation.

  • It is important, however, that it is precisely the transitional families which present intermediate forms both as larvæ and as imagines.

  • A large number of plants bear two kinds of leaves linked with one another by intermediate forms.

  • Both weeping and fastigiate characters are therefore to be regarded as steps in a negative direction, and it is highly important that even such marked departures occur without transitions or intermediate forms.

  • Intermediate forms, if not occurring in the direct line from one species to another, might be expected to appear perhaps on lateral branches.

  • In some particular instances the absence of any trace of intermediate forms is especially significant.

  • Statement of Objections to the Hypothesis of Transmutation founded on the Absence of Intermediate Forms.

  • Whenever this wider difference separating the latter can be spanned by intermediate forms, as it sometimes is, no botanist long resists the inevitable conclusion.

  • Consequently, whenever two reputed species are found to blend in Nature through a series of intermediate forms, community of origin is inferred, and all the forms, however diverse, are held to belong to one species.

  • Intermediate forms occur, connecting one group with another in a manner sadly perplexing to systematists, except to those who have ceased to expect absolute limitations in Nature.

  • Intermediate forms are, therefore, exactly those which are eliminated in the most wholesale way.

  • A single genus, Euchlaena of Schrader, may be compared with it, of which there is one species in Mexico and another in Guatemala; but it is a quite distinct genus, and there are no intermediate forms between it and Zea.

  • Give only rule: chain of intermediate forms, and analogy; this important.

  • Intermediate forms occur, so that with all the actual differences we must place the Sphyrnidae all in one genus.

  • By a regular gradation of intermediate forms, through such genera as Rhinotriacis and Triakis with tricuspid teeth, we reach the large sharp-toothed members of this family.


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