but it would in most cases be more correct, as Professor Huxley has remarked, to speak of both skull and vertebrae, jaws and legs, etc., as having been metamorphosed, not one from the other, as they now exist, but from some common and simpler element.
baina, Huxley irakasleak ohartarazi duen moduan, gehienetan egokiagoa litzateke mintzatzea burezur eta ornoez, baraila eta hankez, eta abarrez, ez gaur diren bezalakoetatik abiatuz bata bestera metamorfizatu bailiren, baizik elementu komun eta soilago batetik abiatuz.