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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... organs , 174 ; Significance of vestigial organs , 181 ; Heredity and its " laws , " 181 ; Galton's law of ancestral in- heritance , 184 ; Mendel's law of alternative inheritance , 187 ; Modification of Mendelism , 188 . CHAPTER XI ...
... organs , 174 ; Significance of vestigial organs , 181 ; Heredity and its " laws , " 181 ; Galton's law of ancestral in- heritance , 184 ; Mendel's law of alternative inheritance , 187 ; Modification of Mendelism , 188 . CHAPTER XI ...
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... organs and organisms do change from day to day , and place to place , and from generation to generation is an observed fact , which now admits of no doubt . The orderly arrangement of our knowledge of this process constitutes a branch ...
... organs and organisms do change from day to day , and place to place , and from generation to generation is an observed fact , which now admits of no doubt . The orderly arrangement of our knowledge of this process constitutes a branch ...
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... organ- ism is formed similar to the parent organism . It was recognized that the form was predetermined by the ancestry , but no longer that the embryo was literally released from encasement within the structure of the egg . The ...
... organ- ism is formed similar to the parent organism . It was recognized that the form was predetermined by the ancestry , but no longer that the embryo was literally released from encasement within the structure of the egg . The ...
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... organs cannot exist where there are no organs . The traits of protoplasm are shown only in the presence of protoplasm . For this reason we may well separate the evolu- tion of astronomy , the evolution of dynamic geology and of physical ...
... organs cannot exist where there are no organs . The traits of protoplasm are shown only in the presence of protoplasm . For this reason we may well separate the evolu- tion of astronomy , the evolution of dynamic geology and of physical ...
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... organs and species as we know them are derived from other and often simpler forms by processes of divergence and adaptation . According to this theory all forms of life now existing , or that have existed on the earth , have risen from ...
... organs and species as we know them are derived from other and often simpler forms by processes of divergence and adaptation . According to this theory all forms of life now existing , or that have existed on the earth , have risen from ...
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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.