All below this developmental point is inconstancy of specific forms, with no line of ancestry to be traced anywhere.
The crystalline system presents no variability in types, but a rigid adherence to specific forms of definitely determined value.
One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
How much weight to attribute to these several considerations I will not pretend to say; but conjointly they must limit in each country the tendency to an indefinite augmentation of specific forms.
Mr. Watson has also objected that the continued action of natural selection, together with divergence of character, would tend to make an indefinite number of specific forms.
Other groups," they say, "may have gradually become what they now are by the successive introduction of specific forms according to a preordained plan which is well expressed by the formal laws of evolution.
Certainly this looks much like immutability of specific forms, and supernaturalism of specific origin.
Reiterate endeavours to solve its difficulties have, however, had the effect of convincing him that that theory as the one or as the leading explanation of the successive evolution and manifestation of specific forms, is untenable.
Another argument in favour of the, at least intermitting, constancy of specific forms and of sudden modification, may be drawn from the absence of minute transitional forms, but this will be considered in the next chapter.
In a few cases it is known that immunity or insusceptibility to specific forms of infection is a unit character which follows Mendelian laws in heredity.
There is some circumstantial evidence that immunity to specific forms of infection has been a great, although hitherto neglected, factor in man's evolution, and even in the history of his civilization and conquest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specific forms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
