Chapters on EvolutionChatto & Windus, 1883 - Всего страниц: 383 |
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... organs in animals and plants , the existence of " links " between 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 ...
... organs in animals and plants , the existence of " links " between 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 ...
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... organs , " and the tale they tell of animal and plant modification . Here the curious nature of these apparently useless parts is seen to be fully borne out by the idea that they refer " to a former state of things , " and that they ...
... organs , " and the tale they tell of animal and plant modification . Here the curious nature of these apparently useless parts is seen to be fully borne out by the idea that they refer " to a former state of things , " and that they ...
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... organs , homologies , missing links , and the like . If we discover that a whalebone whale , which has no teeth in ... organs teach us , like development , valuable lessons concerning the past history of the race which D possesses them ...
... organs , homologies , missing links , and the like . If we discover that a whalebone whale , which has no teeth in ... organs teach us , like development , valuable lessons concerning the past history of the race which D possesses them ...
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... organs are built upon the same type , like the feet of marsupials or the limbs of all vertebrates , from the arm of man to the wing of the bird and the breast - fin of the fish , they must have had a common origin . The true nature of ...
... organs are built upon the same type , like the feet of marsupials or the limbs of all vertebrates , from the arm of man to the wing of the bird and the breast - fin of the fish , they must have had a common origin . The true nature of ...
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... organs . Lamarck , com- menting upon this arrangement of parts - which a glance at the carcase of a sheep , as vertically bisected in the butcher's shop , will illustrate - demonstrated that no other animals , save mammals , birds ...
... organs . Lamarck , com- menting upon this arrangement of parts - which a glance at the carcase of a sheep , as vertically bisected in the butcher's shop , will illustrate - demonstrated that no other animals , save mammals , birds ...
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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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