Life of Charles Darwin, Том 1W. Scott, 1887 - Всего страниц: 175 |
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... evolution ; Lyell's letters ; Sir Joseph Hooker on species ; Mr. A. R. Wallace communicates his views to Darwin ; Lyell and Hooker persuade Darwin to publish his views together with those of Wallace ; introductory letter by Lyell and ...
... evolution ; Lyell's letters ; Sir Joseph Hooker on species ; Mr. A. R. Wallace communicates his views to Darwin ; Lyell and Hooker persuade Darwin to publish his views together with those of Wallace ; introductory letter by Lyell and ...
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... evolution , or the derivation of species from other and lower forms . It is somewhat difficult to decide precisely what Darwin owed to his predecessors who believed in the mutability of species and doubted their separate creation ; this ...
... evolution , or the derivation of species from other and lower forms . It is somewhat difficult to decide precisely what Darwin owed to his predecessors who believed in the mutability of species and doubted their separate creation ; this ...
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... evolution . • “ When we revolve in our minds , first , the great changes which we see naturally produced in animals after their nativity . . . . Secondly , when we think over the great changes introduced into various animals by ...
... evolution . • “ When we revolve in our minds , first , the great changes which we see naturally produced in animals after their nativity . . . . Secondly , when we think over the great changes introduced into various animals by ...
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... History of Creation , " 1876 ; the second portion from O. Schmidt's " Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism , " having been re - written by Darwin from the German text . and with his special knowledge evolved from it the brilliant 72 LIFE OF.
... History of Creation , " 1876 ; the second portion from O. Schmidt's " Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism , " having been re - written by Darwin from the German text . and with his special knowledge evolved from it the brilliant 72 LIFE OF.
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George Thomas Bettany. and with his special knowledge evolved from it the brilliant idea of the preservation of better ... evolution in general , because that history as now revealed by research , and as detailed by many writers , was not ...
George Thomas Bettany. and with his special knowledge evolved from it the brilliant idea of the preservation of better ... evolution in general , because that history as now revealed by research , and as detailed by many writers , was not ...
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Стр. 94 - 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. 93 - 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. 65 - When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
Стр. 122 - The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind— such were our ancestors.
Стр. 82 - Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult — at least I have found it so — than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, the whole economy of nature, with every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation, will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood.
Стр. 83 - But on looking closely between the stems of the heath, I found a multitude of seedlings and little trees which had been perpetually browsed down by the cattle. In one square yard, at a point some...
Стр. 86 - The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs ; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.
Стр. 84 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Стр. 86 - ... extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches ; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few have left living and modified descendants.