Chapters on EvolutionChatto & Windus, 1883 - Всего страниц: 383 |
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... resemble the parents , but continually exhibit differences in colour , size , and other peculiarities . Thus " variations " in species are produced ; and these variations may appear of singularly wide character when conditions favouring ...
... resemble the parents , but continually exhibit differences in colour , size , and other peculiarities . Thus " variations " in species are produced ; and these variations may appear of singularly wide character when conditions favouring ...
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... resemblance to the species , whilst it tends at the same time to diverge from the parental form . Secondly . These variations are capable of being transmitted to offspring ; in other words , by natural laws of inheritance , the ...
... resemblance to the species , whilst it tends at the same time to diverge from the parental form . Secondly . These variations are capable of being transmitted to offspring ; in other words , by natural laws of inheritance , the ...
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... resemble it in structure . So also with its physiology . The second question , " How does it live ? " would be answered in an exact fashion by the investigation of the life - processes of the animal , and by the knowledge which ...
... resemble it in structure . So also with its physiology . The second question , " How does it live ? " would be answered in an exact fashion by the investigation of the life - processes of the animal , and by the knowledge which ...
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... resemble those of the lobster in all essen- tial particulars , although they are less numerous , m in the adult state at least . So that , beyond and beneath all differences in appearance , form , and habits - material as these ...
... resemble those of the lobster in all essen- tial particulars , although they are less numerous , m in the adult state at least . So that , beyond and beneath all differences in appearance , form , and habits - material as these ...
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... resemble each other far more closely in the early stages than in the adults , present a striking correspondence of type that is only marked by the modifications they undergo through adaptation to varied ends ? Why , again , should the ...
... resemble each other far more closely in the early stages than in the adults , present a striking correspondence of type that is only marked by the modifications they undergo through adaptation to varied ends ? Why , again , should the ...
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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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