The Doctrine of Descent and DarwinismD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - Всего страниц: 334 |
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... single prin- ciple those great phenomena which without its aid remain a mass of unintelligible miracles . In a word , it raises the knowledge of organic nature to a science . Even now much of mere professional knowledge is wont to style ...
... single prin- ciple those great phenomena which without its aid remain a mass of unintelligible miracles . In a word , it raises the knowledge of organic nature to a science . Even now much of mere professional knowledge is wont to style ...
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... single occurrences from the dominion of those laws , and place them under the law of a higher will and a higher power . Of this we have many analogies in lower spheres . If my arm hurls a stone into the air , this is contrary to the ...
... single occurrences from the dominion of those laws , and place them under the law of a higher will and a higher power . Of this we have many analogies in lower spheres . If my arm hurls a stone into the air , this is contrary to the ...
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... single formula the motions of the largest heavenly body and of the lightest atom . To such a mind nothing would be uncertain , and the future , like the past , would lie open before it . The human mind in all the perfection which it has ...
... single formula the motions of the largest heavenly body and of the lightest atom . To such a mind nothing would be uncertain , and the future , like the past , would lie open before it . The human mind in all the perfection which it has ...
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... single species of atom . Every manual of physics or physiology will show that , in order to understand and calculate the properties of these atoms and their combinations into the ingre- dients of compound bodies , susceptible of ...
... single species of atom . Every manual of physics or physiology will show that , in order to understand and calculate the properties of these atoms and their combinations into the ingre- dients of compound bodies , susceptible of ...
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... single species , which demand admittance to the system of the Vermes . If we attempt to describe their typical nature in a few words , it must be something like this : The Vermes are more or less elongated , symmetric animals , which ...
... single species , which demand admittance to the system of the Vermes . If we attempt to describe their typical nature in a few words , it must be something like this : The Vermes are more or less elongated , symmetric animals , which ...
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according adaptation already Ammonites Amphibians animal world apes appearance Ascidian become birds brain causes Cetacea character characteristics comparative anatomy complete connection continent Darwin dentition derivation diverge doctrine of Descent Echinoderms embryonic Eocene exhibit external facts families fauna fish formation fossil Ganoids Gastrula genera genus geological Goethe grade gradually groups Haeckel heredity higher horse human hypothesis idea individual infer intermediate forms islands lancelet language larva larvæ likewise linguistic Linnæus lower mammals Marsupials Medusa ment merely metamorphosis modifications morphological mutability natural selection observation Oolite organisms origin peculiar pedigree perfect period phase phenomena placenta plants polypes possess present primordial progenitors races relations remains reproduction reptiles resemblance Rütimeyer says scarcely scientific separate sexual Silurian skull species sponges strata structure systematic terrestrial animals Tertiary theory of selection tion transformation transition true Ungulata Ungulates varieties vegetal vertebral column Vertebrata vertebrate animals whole
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Стр. 162 - 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.18 Darwin always knew that his views would be controversial. A few days before The Origin of Species appeared, Darwin wrote, in a letter to Wallace, 'God knows what...
Стр. 160 - I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear to be, as far as we can judge, neither beneficial nor injurious ; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
Стр. 160 - Na'geli on plants, and the remarks by various authors with respect to animals, more especially those recently made by Professor Broca, that in the earlier editions of my Origin of Species I perhaps attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest.