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III. Chorology: or, the Geographical Distribielion of Living Beings THE importance of the theory of Evolution does not consist in its accounting for this or that particular fact, but in its explaining all biological facts collectively. It is found to be confirmed in every detail by the mode of distribution of the various organisms on the surface of the earth. This distribution had already been studied by Alexander von Humboldt and Fr. Schouw for plants, by Berghaus and Schmarda for animals. But previous to Darwin and Wallace, this study had produced only a collection of unsystematised facts; Haeckel has attempted to create out of it a special science under the name of Chorology.
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The “Darwinian Theory and the Law of Migration of Organisms” (Leipzig, 1865).
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The Development Theory in Germany * . Nature 8, 37–39 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008037a0
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