Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1889 - Всего страниц: 396 |
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... Plants of the same Order . - Utricularia and Pinguicula . - Sarracenia and Nepenthes . - Climbing Plants ; the Climbing effected through Sensitiveness or Response to External Impression and Auto- matic Movement . - Capacities inherent in ...
... Plants of the same Order . - Utricularia and Pinguicula . - Sarracenia and Nepenthes . - Climbing Plants ; the Climbing effected through Sensitiveness or Response to External Impression and Auto- matic Movement . - Capacities inherent in ...
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... plants and animals are sub- ject from their birth to physical influences , to which they have to accommodate themselves as they can . How literally they are " born to trouble , " and how incessant and severe the struggle for life ...
... plants and animals are sub- ject from their birth to physical influences , to which they have to accommodate themselves as they can . How literally they are " born to trouble , " and how incessant and severe the struggle for life ...
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... plants characteristic of the different geological epochs , .... the localization of some types of animals upon the same points of the surface of the globe during several suc- cessive geological periods , . . . . the parallelism between ...
... plants characteristic of the different geological epochs , .... the localization of some types of animals upon the same points of the surface of the globe during several suc- cessive geological periods , . . . . the parallelism between ...
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... plants , or many of them , may be derived from other and earlier kinds , in the lapse of time , is by no means a novel proposition . Not to speak of ancient speculations of the sort , it is the well - known Lamarckian theory . The first ...
... plants , or many of them , may be derived from other and earlier kinds , in the lapse of time , is by no means a novel proposition . Not to speak of ancient speculations of the sort , it is the well - known Lamarckian theory . The first ...
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... plants and animals in a wild as well as domesticated state , that the tendency to vary is general , and even universal . Mr. Darwin does " not believe that variability is an inherent and necessary contingency , under all circum- stances ...
... plants and animals in a wild as well as domesticated state , that the tendency to vary is general , and even universal . Mr. Darwin does " not believe that variability is an inherent and necessary contingency , under all circum- stances ...
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