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relation •with the conditions to which each species has been 

 exposed during several generations. Domesticated animals 

 vary more than those in a state of nature ; and this is 

 apparently due to the diversified and changing nature of 

 their conditions. The different races of man resemble in 

 this respect domesticated animals. , . . We see the influence 

 of diversified conditions in the more civilized nations. . . . 

 The uniformity of savages has often been exaggerated, and, 

 in some cases can hardly be said to exist." (Vol. i. p. 141.) 



Lord G. No one can doubt the existence of numerous 

 variations in man and the lower animals, but we need not 

 at present inquire further into its causes. Doubtless, as 

 you say, " we are in all cases very ignorant " as " to the 

 causes of variability." The point now to be considered is — 

 Does the existence of such variations, as you have just told 

 us Professor Turner, of Edinburgh, has informed you of, 

 prove man to be allied to the lower animals ? Do they 

 show him to be descended from the "hairy quadruped" you 

 speak of, or from the larvae of ancient Ascidians ? 



Danvin. "In order," my Lord, "that an ape-like 

 creature should have been transformed into man, it is 

 necessary that this early form, as well as many successive 

 links, should all have varied in mind and body. It is 

 impossible to obtain direct evidence on this head ; but if it 

 can be shown that man now varies — that his variations are 

 induced by the same general causes, and by the same 

 general laws, as in the case of the lower animals — there can 

 be little doubt that the preceding intermediate links varied 

 in a like manner." (Vol. i. p. 107.) 



Lord C. I should say there can be no doubt whatever 

 that if "the preceding intermediate links" ever really 

 existed, they " varied " just as men and animals vary now. 

 But you have first to prove that they really have existed. 



