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 



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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 s 



