39/40 Therefore it seems to me rather rash to consider slight differences between representative species, for instance, those inhabiting the different islands of the same archipelago, as of no functional importance, and as not in any way due to natural selection" _( Life of Darwin_, vol.iii.p. 161).] [Footnote 48: See _Variation of Animals and Plants_, vol.i.p. 86.] [Footnote 49: _Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology,_ vol.xx. p. |