After having made the case for special and serial homologies, Owen turns to the argument for general homology.
Owen proposes that neither chance nor adaptation to the environment are particularly good explanations for the phenomena of special and serial homology.
There is no reason for special and serial homologies across vertebrate taxa, that is, whatever commonalities in structure there are among the taxa are due to chance.
As in the case of his arguments for special and serial homologies, his argument for general homology is painstakingly detailed, establishing correspondences between a vast number of points on the limb bones of a large number of vertebrate creatures.
The remainder of On the Nature of Limbs is devoted to showing that the special and serial homologies across the vertebrate taxa, taken together, have the same structural conformation, and that there is a single organizational scheme for the entire complex of bones that make up our shoulders, arms, hands, legs, fingers, and toes.
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