Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by EvolutionHodder and Stoughton, 1873 - Всего страниц: 259 |
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... leaves vary together in tint ; in all the varieties of the common pea which have purple flowers , a purple mark appears also on the stipules . The Transmission of Variations . - The offspring , then , inheriting in general the ...
... leaves vary together in tint ; in all the varieties of the common pea which have purple flowers , a purple mark appears also on the stipules . The Transmission of Variations . - The offspring , then , inheriting in general the ...
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... leaves come into fashion , sufficient variation is found to meet the demand , and we have zoned pelargoniums and variegated ivy . This variation is not confined to old and well - known plants , subjected for a long series of generations ...
... leaves come into fashion , sufficient variation is found to meet the demand , and we have zoned pelargoniums and variegated ivy . This variation is not confined to old and well - known plants , subjected for a long series of generations ...
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... leaves offspring which tend to inherit the same characters . With mammals , the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms . All male animals which are furnished with ...
... leaves offspring which tend to inherit the same characters . With mammals , the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms . All male animals which are furnished with ...
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... leaf - eating insects green , and bark - feeders mottled grey , the alpine ptarmigan white in winter , the red grouse the colour of the heather , and the black grouse that of peaty earth , we must believe PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCES . 77 ...
... leaf - eating insects green , and bark - feeders mottled grey , the alpine ptarmigan white in winter , the red grouse the colour of the heather , and the black grouse that of peaty earth , we must believe PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCES . 77 ...
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... leaf , " in which not only are the wings perfect imitations of leaves in every detail , but the thorax and legs are flat , dilated , and leaf - like , so that when the living insect is resting among the foliage on which it feeds , the ...
... leaf , " in which not only are the wings perfect imitations of leaves in every detail , but the thorax and legs are flat , dilated , and leaf - like , so that when the living insect is resting among the foliage on which it feeds , the ...
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Darwinism and Design: Creation by Evolution - Scholar's Choice Edition George St Clair Недоступно для просмотра - 2015 |
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Стр. 125 - 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. 87 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Стр. 130 - When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history...
Стр. 108 - Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor.
Стр. 128 - 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. "When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Стр. 84 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Стр. 143 - Von Baer found that in its earliest stage, every organism has the greatest number of characters in common with all other organisms in their earliest stages ; that at a stage somewhat later, its structure is like the structures displayed at corresponding phases by a less extensive multitude of organisms ; that at each subsequent stage, traits are acquired which successively distinguish the developing embryo from groups of embryos that it previously resembled — thus step by step diminishing the...
Стр. 112 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Стр. 181 - ... each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand ; what war between insect and insect — between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey — all striving to increase...
Стр. 244 - We hardly use the word ought in a metaphorical sense when we say hounds ought to hunt, pointers to point, and retrievers to retrieve their game.