Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1889 - Всего страниц: 396 |
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... Side . - Former Glaciation as explaining the Present Dispersion of Species . - This confirmed by the Arctic Fossil Flora of the Tertiary Period . — Tertiary Flora derived from the Preceding Cretaceous . - Order and Adaptation in Organic ...
... Side . - Former Glaciation as explaining the Present Dispersion of Species . - This confirmed by the Arctic Fossil Flora of the Tertiary Period . — Tertiary Flora derived from the Preceding Cretaceous . - Order and Adaptation in Organic ...
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... sides , and overtop and kill the sur- rounding twigs and branches , in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life . The limbs divided into great branches , and ...
... sides , and overtop and kill the sur- rounding twigs and branches , in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life . The limbs divided into great branches , and ...
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Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Asa Gray. and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch , so by genera- tion I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life , which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the ...
Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Asa Gray. and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch , so by genera- tion I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life , which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the ...
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... side , the amplest exposition of the unity of plan in creation , considered irrespective of natural agencies , leads to no other conclusion . We are thus , at last , brought to the question , What would happen if the derivation of ...
... side , the amplest exposition of the unity of plan in creation , considered irrespective of natural agencies , leads to no other conclusion . We are thus , at last , brought to the question , What would happen if the derivation of ...
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... side of design . For you seem to assume an actor , a design- er , accomplishing his design in the first instance . You —a bystander — infer that the player effected his de- sign in sending the first ball to the pocket before him . You ...
... side of design . For you seem to assume an actor , a design- er , accomplishing his design in the first instance . You —a bystander — infer that the player effected his de- sign in sending the first ball to the pocket before him . You ...
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