I will now give two or three instances of diversified and of changed habitsin the individuals of the same species.
Of cases of changed habits it will suffice merely to allude to that of the many British insects which now feed on exotic plants, or exclusively on artificial substances.
But it is difficult to tell, and immaterial for us, whether habits generally change first and structure afterwards; or whether slight modifications of structure lead to changed habits; both probably often change almost simultaneously.
I may here give a curious instance of compulsion leading to changed habits: the banks of the Nile above lat.
Changed Habits of Life, independently of the Use or Disuse of particular Organs.
It is equally or even more unintelligible on any ordinary view, how the effects of the long-continued use or disuse of any part, or of changed habits of body or mind, can be inherited.
It is equally or even more unintelligible on any ordinary view, how the effects of the long-continued use or disuse of a part, or of changed habits of body or mind, can be inherited.
Changed habits produce an inherited effect as in the period of the flowering of plants when transported from one climate to another.
I will now give two or three instances, both of diversified and of changed habits, in the individuals of the same species.
It appears, in fact, to inherit that which it cannot acquire--a circumstance which indicates the selection of spontaneous variations rather than the inheritance of changed habits.
The effect of changed habits or conditions on the individual is often very far from coinciding with the effects on the reproductive elements or the transmissible type.
If, however, we turn to animals under confinement, we find immediate proof that the most startling changes are capable of being produced after some generations of changed habits.
Returning to Lamarck, we find him saying:-- "Even in the lifetime of a single individual we can see organic changes in consequence of changed habits.
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