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In this case, however, it may be strongly suspected as the resemblance is only analogical, owing to the Phascolomys having become adapted to habits like those of a rodent.
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On the other hand, of all marsupials, as Mr. Waterhouse has remarked, the Phascolomys resembles most nearly, not any one species, but the general order of rodents.
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Marsupials the Phascolomys, on the other hand, appears to approach in the form of its teeth and intestines nearest to the Rodents; but there is no special relation between these two genera {441}; the Bizcacha is no nearer related to the Phascolomys than to any other Marsupial in the points in which it approaches this division; nor again is the
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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Phascolomys, in the points of structure in which it approaches the
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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The Wombat, more commonly called in the colony Badger (_Phascolomys wombat_, Peron.), is an animal weighing forty to eighty pounds, having a large body, with short legs.
The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840
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That the extinct species of Macropus, Dasyurus, Phascolomys, especially Macropus atlas and Macropus titan are larger than the largest known existing species.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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It follows, from our theory, that two orders must have descended from one common stock at an immensely remote epoch; and we can perceive when a species in either order, or in both, shows some affinity to the other order, why the affinity is usually generic and not particular -- that is why the Bizcacha amongst Rodents, in the points in which it is related to the Marsupial, is related to the whole group {453}, and not particularly to the Phascolomys, which of all Marsupialia is related most to the Rodents.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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Waterhouse) this example as it illustrates another point, namely, the difficulty of determining what are analogical or adaptive and what real affinities; it seems that the teeth of the Phascolomys though _appearing closely_ to resemble those of a Rodent are found to be built on the
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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