Chapters on EvolutionChatto & Windus, 1883 - Всего страниц: 383 |
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... distinct era in the science of biology , or that dealing with the structure , functions , development , and general history of animals and plants . On July 1 , 1858 , two papers were read before the Linnæan Society of London , which ...
... distinct era in the science of biology , or that dealing with the structure , functions , development , and general history of animals and plants . On July 1 , 1858 , two papers were read before the Linnæan Society of London , which ...
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... distinct groups , the results of degeneration , and other subjects - will also be found fully detailed in the following pages , which partake , indeed , of the cha- racter of a continuous series of proofs of the truth of the evolution ...
... distinct groups , the results of degeneration , and other subjects - will also be found fully detailed in the following pages , which partake , indeed , of the cha- racter of a continuous series of proofs of the truth of the evolution ...
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... distinct groups of animals the existence of which the theory itself postulates , and the necessity for which is a matter of popular notoriety . The higher animals have been specially selected for treatment in this chapter , not merely ...
... distinct groups of animals the existence of which the theory itself postulates , and the necessity for which is a matter of popular notoriety . The higher animals have been specially selected for treatment in this chapter , not merely ...
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... distinct and spe- cialised to render the details of its biological study a matter of easy com- prehension . No animal form is more familiar as a being foreign to our own country than the kangaroo ; and its history , like that of every ...
... distinct and spe- cialised to render the details of its biological study a matter of easy com- prehension . No animal form is more familiar as a being foreign to our own country than the kangaroo ; and its history , like that of every ...
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... distinct , as in days of old , but all our knowledge of the past and present of living beings tends to supply us with a rational under- standing of their origin and progress towards their existing structure and position in nature ...
... distinct , as in days of old , but all our knowledge of the past and present of living beings tends to supply us with a rational under- standing of their origin and progress towards their existing structure and position in nature ...
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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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