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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... parasites , 350 ; Gregarina , 351 ; Parasitic hemospor- idia : the cause of malarial fevers , 351 ; Tapeworm and other flat worms , 354 ; Trichina and other round worms , 355 ; Sacculina , 358 ; Parasitic insects , 359 ; Parasitic ...
... parasites , 350 ; Gregarina , 351 ; Parasitic hemospor- idia : the cause of malarial fevers , 351 ; Tapeworm and other flat worms , 354 ; Trichina and other round worms , 355 ; Sacculina , 358 ; Parasitic insects , 359 ; Parasitic ...
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... parasites , 350 ; Gregarina , 351 ; Parasitic hemospor- idia : the cause of malarial fevers , 351 ; Tapeworm and other flat worms , 354 ; Trichina and other round worms , 355 ; Sacculina , 358 ; Parasitic insects , 359 ; Parasitic ...
... parasites , 350 ; Gregarina , 351 ; Parasitic hemospor- idia : the cause of malarial fevers , 351 ; Tapeworm and other flat worms , 354 ; Trichina and other round worms , 355 ; Sacculina , 358 ; Parasitic insects , 359 ; Parasitic ...
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... rust while others are ex- terminated by such parasites . Fill a bottle with flies. FIG . 8. - Sea cucumber , Cucu- maria , sp . ( Natural size . ) FIG . 9 .-- Blunt - nosed salamander , Amblystoma. VARIETY AND UNITY IN LIFE 19.
... rust while others are ex- terminated by such parasites . Fill a bottle with flies. FIG . 8. - Sea cucumber , Cucu- maria , sp . ( Natural size . ) FIG . 9 .-- Blunt - nosed salamander , Amblystoma. VARIETY AND UNITY IN LIFE 19.
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... parasites . Fill a bottle with flies . All in time will die of suffocation , but a certain few will outlast the many . Bring in a number of wolf cubs . Some will become relatively tame - some will remain wolves , and between the most ...
... parasites . Fill a bottle with flies . All in time will die of suffocation , but a certain few will outlast the many . Bring in a number of wolf cubs . Some will become relatively tame - some will remain wolves , and between the most ...
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... parasitic within the larva itself . Millions of flies starve to death . Mil- lions more are eaten by birds and predaceous insects . The final result is that from year to year the number of flies does not increase . Linnæus once said ...
... parasitic within the larva itself . Millions of flies starve to death . Mil- lions more are eaten by birds and predaceous insects . The final result is that from year to year the number of flies does not increase . Linnæus once said ...
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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.