Chapters on EvolutionChatto & Windus, 1883 - Всего страниц: 383 |
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... direct an amount of criticism and research unparalleled in the annals of scientific history . It was then that Mr. Darwin and Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace laid before the scientific world the results of independent observations and ...
... direct an amount of criticism and research unparalleled in the annals of scientific history . It was then that Mr. Darwin and Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace laid before the scientific world the results of independent observations and ...
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... direct opposition to the older and more primitive conceptions of the origin of species which , formulated in creeds , and elaborated from pulpits , had come to be received as an article of unquestioning faith by cultured and uncultured ...
... direct opposition to the older and more primitive conceptions of the origin of species which , formulated in creeds , and elaborated from pulpits , had come to be received as an article of unquestioning faith by cultured and uncultured ...
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... direct action of the 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 ...
... direct action of the 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 ...
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... direct our attention . If we select any type , from the lowest to the highest , we may readily discover that its included animals exhibit amongst themselves a connected relationship such as the mere fact of their bodies being built upon ...
... direct our attention . If we select any type , from the lowest to the highest , we may readily discover that its included animals exhibit amongst themselves a connected relationship such as the mere fact of their bodies being built upon ...
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... direct products of the nerve - energy stowed up within the cells of the nerve - centres ; and , as we have seen , protoplasm constitutes the essential materies of these cells . That differences of function , wide and apparent , exist ...
... direct products of the nerve - energy stowed up within the cells of the nerve - centres ; and , as we have seen , protoplasm constitutes the essential materies of these cells . That differences of function , wide and apparent , exist ...
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adult air-bladder animal or plant animal world animalcule animals and plants appear appendages ascidian Axolotl barnacle become biological bird body bone buds Campodea carpels cells changes chiton cilia cloth extra colonial common complete connected constitution crab cross-fertilisation Crown 8vo crustaceans curious Darwin degeneration descent discover evolution exhibit existence fact favour fertilisation firstly fish flowers fossil frog germ gills higher animals idea Illustrations individual insects jaws lampshells lancelet larva larvæ latter life-history likewise limbs living lobster marsupials ment metamorphosis missing links modification molluscs named naturalist nature Nauplius neighbours notochord organisation organs origin pairs phases pistil pollen pollen-grains possess present primitive primrose protoplasm pteropod quadrupeds race regarded remarks represented reptiles resemblance Sacculina scientific sea-squirt seen segments skull species sponge stage stamens Starfishes structure tail theory tion to-day trace variation vertebrate whilst wings worm young zoophyte
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Стр. 9 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator 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.
Стр. 8 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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 upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
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Стр. 138 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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