Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes, Laws and Theories Relating to the Life and Evolution of AnimalsD. Appleton, 1907 - Всего страниц: 489 |
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... body tissues of mosquitoes , all places where animal life is found , are being examined with an eagerness not less than that of the early explorers , while the investigators of to - day are armed with every appliance that science can ...
... body tissues of mosquitoes , all places where animal life is found , are being examined with an eagerness not less than that of the early explorers , while the investigators of to - day are armed with every appliance that science can ...
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... body of the squirrel or other highly developed animal : A , liver cell ; f , food materials ; n , nucleus ; B , complete cell ; C , nerve cell , with small part of its fiber ; D , muscle fiber ; E , cells lining the body cavity ; F ...
... body of the squirrel or other highly developed animal : A , liver cell ; f , food materials ; n , nucleus ; B , complete cell ; C , nerve cell , with small part of its fiber ; D , muscle fiber ; E , cells lining the body cavity ; F ...
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... body of those many - celled animals which differ from and are , we may say , beyond and higher than the simple many- celled forms , are by no means always along the same line ( Figs . 27-37 ) . It is familiar knowledge that animals can ...
... body of those many - celled animals which differ from and are , we may say , beyond and higher than the simple many- celled forms , are by no means always along the same line ( Figs . 27-37 ) . It is familiar knowledge that animals can ...
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... body is made up of a series of many successive similar segments , each segment bear- ing a pair of jointed ap ... body segments grouped into three regions and their jointed appendages confined to the anterior two of these re- gions ...
... body is made up of a series of many successive similar segments , each segment bear- ing a pair of jointed ap ... body segments grouped into three regions and their jointed appendages confined to the anterior two of these re- gions ...
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... body , showing the two layers of cells which make up the body wall . names refers pri- marily to a special line or mode of differentiation and at the same time refers to the fact that the members of each of these differentiated groups ...
... body , showing the two layers of cells which make up the body wall . names refers pri- marily to a special line or mode of differentiation and at the same time refers to the fact that the members of each of these differentiated groups ...
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Стр. 466 - 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. 424 - ... duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. To do this effectually it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs: the first, that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited; the second, that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events.
Стр. 23 - ... x's and y's with which he works his problems, for real entities — and with this further disadvantage, as compared with the mathematician, that the blunders of the latter are of no practical consequence, while the errors of systematic materialism may paralyse the energies and destroy the beauty of a life.
Стр. 466 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Стр. 424 - We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
Стр. 61 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
Стр. 135 - Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied.
Стр. 455 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
Стр. 118 - Given any species in any region, the nearest related species is not likely to be found in the same region, nor in a remote region, but in a neighboring district, separated from the first by a barrier of some sort, or at least by a belt of country the breadth of which gives the effect of a barrier.