On the Genesis of SpeciesMacmillan, 1871 - Всего страниц: 342 |
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... forms when such might be expected a priori . — Bats , Pterodactyles , Dinosauria , and Birds . - Ichthyosauria , Chelonia , and Anoura . - Horse ancestry . - Labyrinthodonts and Trilobites . - Two subdivisions of the second relation of ...
... forms when such might be expected a priori . — Bats , Pterodactyles , Dinosauria , and Birds . - Ichthyosauria , Chelonia , and Anoura . - Horse ancestry . - Labyrinthodonts and Trilobites . - Two subdivisions of the second relation of ...
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... forms . -Conclusion Page 163 CHAPTER VIII . HOMOLOGIES Animals made up of parts mutually related in various ways . — What homo- logy is - Its various kinds . - Serial homology . - Lateral homology.- Vertical homology . - Mr . Herbert ...
... forms . -Conclusion Page 163 CHAPTER VIII . HOMOLOGIES Animals made up of parts mutually related in various ways . — What homo- logy is - Its various kinds . - Serial homology . - Lateral homology.- Vertical homology . - Mr . Herbert ...
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... forms . Moreover , the reception of this doctrine tends actually , though by no means neces- sarily , to be ... form of the evolution theory which is associated with the name of Mr. Darwin ; and yet neither the refutation nor the ...
... forms . Moreover , the reception of this doctrine tends actually , though by no means neces- sarily , to be ... form of the evolution theory which is associated with the name of Mr. Darwin ; and yet neither the refutation nor the ...
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... forms are numerous . Again , " Natural Selection serves to explain the cir- cumstance that often in adjacent islands we find animals closely resembling , and appearing to represent , each other ; while if certain of these islands show ...
... forms are numerous . Again , " Natural Selection serves to explain the cir- cumstance that often in adjacent islands we find animals closely resembling , and appearing to represent , each other ; while if certain of these islands show ...
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... forms , or into one . " This is mentioned in justice to Mr. Darwin only , and by no means because it is a position which this book is intended to support . For , from Mr. Darwin's usual mode of speaking , it appears that by such Divine ...
... forms , or into one . " This is mentioned in justice to Mr. Darwin only , and by no means because it is a position which this book is intended to support . For , from Mr. Darwin's usual mode of speaking , it appears that by such Divine ...
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Стр. 314 - The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe...
Стр. 282 - Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer ; and must eventually be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first been progressing.
Стр. 212 - In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
Стр. 328 - ... to capture or overcome both. Though less capable than most other animals of living on the herbs and the fruits that unaided nature supplies, this wonderful faculty taught him to govern and direct nature to his own benefit, and make her produce food for him when and where he pleased. From...
Стр. 67 - The justice of these remarks cannot I think be disputed. If, for instance, a bird of some kind could procure its food more easily by having its beak curved, and if one were born with its beak strongly curved, and which consequently flourished, nevertheless there would be a very poor chance of this one individual perpetuating its kind to the exclusion of the common form; but there can hardly be...
Стр. 228 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.
Стр. 218 - I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Стр. 17 - 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. 111 - English greyhounds of the best breed, to hunt the hares which abound in that country. The great platform which is the scene of sport is at an elevation of about...
Стр. 325 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.