Chapters on EvolutionChatto & Windus, 1883 - Всего страниц: 383 |
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... units— unvarying as when they were first " created " on the former theory of life's origin is the theatre of incessant variation and change . Each " species " or " kind " of animals and plants , instead of existing as a stable unvarying ...
... units— unvarying as when they were first " created " on the former theory of life's origin is the theatre of incessant variation and change . Each " species " or " kind " of animals and plants , instead of existing as a stable unvarying ...
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... units die off , whilst the " selected " and stronger units , coming to the front , perpetuate their race , and thus tend , through their superiority and strength , to evolve new races and species . It is an easy matter to summarise , in ...
... units die off , whilst the " selected " and stronger units , coming to the front , perpetuate their race , and thus tend , through their superiority and strength , to evolve new races and species . It is an easy matter to summarise , in ...
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... units of official nature , upon " infor- mation received " through sensation , is a universal attribute of life . Even the fixed plant may , as in the Venus's fly - trap ( Dionæa ) , develop a more sensitive and elaborate apparatus for ...
... units of official nature , upon " infor- mation received " through sensation , is a universal attribute of life . Even the fixed plant may , as in the Venus's fly - trap ( Dionæa ) , develop a more sensitive and elaborate apparatus for ...
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... units has followed a series of definite plans or types , leading to the construction of the six or seven primary groups into which the naturalist is accustomed to divide the hosts of animal life . These " types , " it must further be ...
... units has followed a series of definite plans or types , leading to the construction of the six or seven primary groups into which the naturalist is accustomed to divide the hosts of animal life . These " types , " it must further be ...
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... units , each representing the single " cell " of lower life , the study of the low organism should reveal to us , as by deputy , the secrets of the higher organisation . But the problem is hardly resolvable into con- ditions such as ...
... units , each representing the single " cell " of lower life , the study of the low organism should reveal to us , as by deputy , the secrets of the higher organisation . But the problem is hardly resolvable into con- ditions such as ...
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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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