Thus far in the present chapter we have been dealing exclusively with the case of "climatic variation," or change of specific type due to changes in the external conditions of life.
But it will be remembered that, in the preceding chapter, allusion was likewise made to changes of specific type due to internal causes, or to what Darwin has called "the nature of the organism.
Attention is fixed upon one individual; we are led into the midst of the natural situations of every-day life, and receive with great force the impressions which events, ideas, or other characters make upon a specific type of man.
Yet it is not the feeling of any lover, but instead, that of an aged wife, a noble, a faithful and loving character of a specific type.
Must not the two stages become changed with and through one another, like the parts of one body, since they first together constitute the specific type?
Do we thereby acknowledge a “specific type” in the sense of an inseparably connected complex of characters, none of which can be taken away without all the others becoming modified?
The “specific type” depends upon the physiological equilibrium of the parts of the organism, 671.
Races under nature are, upon our theory, caused by degeneration; they are various degenerations of a specific type.
Were races confessed to be the degenerations of a specific type, then it would be apparent to the capacity of a boy that the appearance of characters under domestication was due to reversion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specific type" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
