Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation

ome twenty odd "species" of wild pigs scattered over the Old World, which Flower and Lydekker assure us would probably "breed freely together."[16] The yak and the zebu of India, an

cats (Felid?) are well known to breed freely together, Karl Hag?nbeck of Hamburg having crossed lions and tigers as well as others of the family. Practically all of the bears have been crossed repeatedly, and

of species in any given group. For a generation or more in the recent past the "splitters" had things pretty much their own way; but of late there is a growing tendency to frown down the mania for creating new names. Even yet it is with the utmost reluctance that long established specific distinctions are surrendered, as is illustrated in the case of the mammoth, which is acknowledged by some of the very best authorities to be really indistinguishable from the modern Asiatic elephant. Several fossil bears were long listed in scientific books; but they are all acknowledged now to be identical with the modern grizzly, and as we have already intimated all the modern ones ought to be put together. These modern rationalizing methods have made but a slight impression on the vast complex of the fossil plants and

ny of the older genera, now recognized as distinct by reason of our imperfect knowledge conce

t of names on their hands that by a rational and enlightened revision could doubtless be reduced to but a fraction of their present disheartening array. For as the result of the extensive breeding experiments now being carried on under the study of what is called Mendelism (a term that will

ogists, for example, would, if subjected to breeding tests, be immediately proved to be analytica

will serve to show how numerous have been the new names invented in recent year

nt of minor variations, real or supposed. In Europe, where the fishes have been studied longer and by more differen

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s a new species not less than twenty-five times, on account of diff

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emerged males and females were allowed to pair, after which the female oviposited in several species of aphids. Both parents were then killed and preserved and all of their progeny not used in further experiments were also preserved, and thus entire broods or families were kept together. In this way females were

emetery--you may call it Mt. Synonym Cemetery, if you choose--while the insect involved is now A