According to the views here maintained, such language may be used literally; and the wonderful fact of the jaws, for instance, of a crab retaining numerous characters, which they probably would have retained through inheritance, if they had really been metamorphosed from true though extremely simple legs, is in part explained.
eta aldez bederen azaldu ere egiten da, adibidez, karramarroen barailek hainbat ezaugarri horren harrigarriro kontserbatzea; izan ere, baldin ezaugarriok egiazko hanketatik, xumeenak izanik ere, metamorfizatu balira, herentziaren bidez kontserbatu ziratekeen ziurrenik.