Robert Chambers Quote

Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development. We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages in the embryotic progress of the highest—the human being. Our brain goes through the various stages of a fish's, a reptile's, and a mammifer's brain, and finally becomes human.


p. 306 - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)


Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development. We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages...

Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development. We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages...

Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development. We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages...

Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development. We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages...