Darwin states that that the law around us is life growing on this planet for example plants and animals and how we are almost alike in our own way. Darwin quotes; "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.” What Darwin is saying this in paragraph is that there are so many different types of species evolving for one another and that it is interesting how animals, plants, humans every that you can image became about in this world. I guess the question is how did everything in this world evolve from where, when, how? Every scientist is trying to figure this out. I think that it is amazing how thing could reproduce and keep going in a cycle as traits keep being passed on over and over. The laws for Darwin states; “These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” The sentence does not only wedge or raise Evolution to the same level as Newton's discovery though. Darwin was uncertain about the amount of time that evolution required to unfold. He knew it needed lots of it. So by reminding us of the Newtonian cosmos, that very symbol of permanence and clockwork exactness, he can evoke the sort of time-line, the sort of chronology which fits the process of evolution. But there is something yet more unsettling. Darwin has been dealing with inheritance, with variety, with the struggle for life.

Darwin asserts that all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure and their laws of growth and reproduction. One similarity between humans and animals is when we are embryos. Early Embryos of many different vertebrate species look remarkably similar. These similarities in early embryological development of vertebrates can be taken as another indication that vertebrates may share a common ancestry. Similar features that originate in a shared ancestor are described as homologous features. Although the limbs look different and vary greatly in function, they are very similar in skeletal structure, and they derived from the same structures in the embryo. We also breathe, eat, and drink in order to live.
The germ cell which contains the individual, with all its possibilities, possesses certain inherent qualities or powers; and, when surrounded by its appropriate conditions, it develops a certain specific result; and, like the molecule of oxygen, it must correspond to a measured quota or specific law of force. Therefore "a species among living things', as well as inorganic, is based on a specific amount or condition of concentration force defined in the act or law of creation." He thus makes the fundamental distinction between species a potential one, depending on the difference of the value or law of force for each. By the same method he establishes the permanency of species. This he finds corroborated by the provisions of nature to guard their purity, as manifested by the law of hybridity mentioned above.

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