Two young children in TTnley were discussing the letters of the alphabet, and one of them said to _ her elder sister:" How can I tell which is sf-d and which b?" "Why, you stupid," replied the other,*"" a d has its tummy on its back." Everything varies ; even " two peas " are unlike, and* any favourable variation equips its possessor for victory in the ceaseless struggle for existence. In these, variations (the causes of which remain obscure) there are the factors on which natural selection acts in the production of new species., the development, of the most primitive life-forms i into the- highest, involving vast periods 'of trme.— Edward Clodd. ■• ' . \ '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9535, 6 May 1909, Page 1
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