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CHAPTER XVII ON THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS, OR THE COMPARISON OF RELATED FORMS

through which the course

A line drawing of a bone morphology, overlaid on a grid of numbered columns 1–9 and lettered rows a–h for analysis.
A D'Arcy Thompson transformation grid showing the anatomical distortion of a vertebrate skull projected onto a curved surface.

of evolution must have successively travelled if it has brought about the change from some ancestral type to its presumed descendant. Some little time ago I sent to my friend, Mr Gerhard Heilmann of Copenhagen, a

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