176 Darwin, and after Darwin. 



occur in the sundry branches of the mammalian type 

 now living. As we shall presently see, the modi- 

 fications which the limbs have undergone in these 



sundry branches chiefly consist in the suppression of 

 some parts and the exaggerated development of others. 

 But, by comparing all mammalian limbs together, it is 

 easy to obtain a generalized type of mammalian limb, 



