antetype

In this doomed world, no type can find its antetype.

Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millenium" Part 2 1989

If [this] law be true, it follows that the natural series of affinities will also represent the order in which the several species came into existence, each one having had for its immediate antetype a clearly allied species existing at the time of its origin ....

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

Free from the athletics and the slang, she is antetype, indeed, of, say, the St. Andrews girl, that admirable creation of our age; but she soars beyond her sister on the wings of her more exquisite sensibility, and her deeper restfulness.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

We thus see how difficult it is to determine in every case whether a given relation is an analogy or an affinity, for it is evident that as we go back along the parallel or divergent series, towards the common antetype, the analogy which existed between the two groups becomes an affinity ....

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

If two or more species have been independently formed on the plan of a common antetype, then the series of affinities will be compound, and can only be represented by a forked or many-branched line ....

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

In the long series of changes the earth had undergone, the process of peopling it with organic beings had been continually going on, and whenever any of the higher groups had become nearly or quite extinct, the lower forms which better resisted the modified physical conditions served as the antetype on which to found new races.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

In the long series of changes the earth had undergone, the process of peopling it with organic beings had been continually going on, and whenever any of the higher groups had become nearly or quite extinct, the lower forms which better resisted the modified physical conditions served as the antetype on which to found new races.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

If [this] law be true, it follows that the natural series of affinities will also represent the order in which the several species came into existence, each one having had for its immediate antetype a clearly allied species existing at the time of its origin ....

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

If two or more species have been independently formed on the plan of a common antetype, then the series of affinities will be compound, and can only be represented by a forked or many-branched line ....

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

We thus see how difficult it is to determine in every case whether a given relation is an analogy or an affinity, for it is evident that as we go back along the parallel or divergent series, towards the common antetype, the analogy which existed between the two groups becomes an affinity ....

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916