Organic Evolution: A Text-book

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Macmillan, 1917 - Всего страниц: 729

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Natural Selection
99
Sexual and Artificial Selection
115
Chimæroid fish Chimera colliei male showing secondary sex char
116
Variation and Mutation
133
Vestigial hind limbs of python
136
Heredity
142
Diagram to illustrate the continuity of the germplasm
152
Inheritance of Acquired Characters
163
Metamorphosis of a flounder Platophrys pedas
165
Stickleback fishes Gasterosteus cataphractus showing ontogenetic
172
Orthogenesis and Kinetogenesis
175
THE EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION
191
ONTOGENY XIII The Life Cycle
193
Colony of Gonium pectorale
194
Embryonic stages common to all Metazoa
204
Recapitulation Racial Old Age Extinctions
213
Metamorphosis of the frog Rana temporaria
214
Antlers of stag showing ontogenetic increase in complexity
222
MORPHOLOGY AND ADAPTATIONS XV Coloration and Mimicry
229
Phyllium walking leaf an example of insect mimicry
242
Animal Associations Communalism
248
Honeybee Apis mellifica
256
Red ant Formica rufa
259
Parasitism and Degeneracy
262
Parasite which causes disease among cattle Trypanosoma theileri
265
The nadir of parasitism Sacculina carcini
268
Trichina spiralis embedded in muscle
271
Tape worm of the pig Tania solium
273
Parasitic Crustacea Eucopepoda
275
Adaptive Radiation
279
Hind feet of marsupials
281
squaremouth or white rhinoceros Rhinoceros simus pointedmouth or black rhinoceros R bicornis
282
The most primitive living representative of the Insectivora Gymnura
285
Opossum Didelphys marsupialis the most primitive living marsupial
287
Upper and lower teeth of the wolf Canis lupus
291
XIX Cursorial and Fossorial Adaptation
294
plantigrade bear digitigrade hyæna unguligrade pig
297
Rhinoceros foot sectioned to show the supporting pad
298
Hind limb of horse Equus caballus to show restriction of movement
299
Threetoed horse Hipparion Neohipparion showing cursorial adaptation for run or gallop mastodon M americanus showing graviportal adaptation for...
300
Skeleton of jerboa Dipus
305
Skeleton of platypus Ornithorhynchus
309
Hands of moles
312
Skeleton of common mole Talpa europaa
313
Aquatic Adaptation
316
Type of swiftswimming fish Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus maculatus
317
Galapagos sealizard Amblyrhynchus cristatus
320
Marine turtle hawksbill Chelone imbricata
321
Skeleton of porpoise
324
Killer whale Orca rectipinna
326
Plesiosaur Cryptocleidus
327
Propelling tails caudals of ichthyosaurs showing the development of the organ
328
Marine crocodile thalattosuchian Geosaurus
329
Ichthyosaur paddles
330
Skull of a mosasaur Clidastes
332
Zeuglodon skull Prozeuglodon atrox
333
Sulphurbottom whale Sibbaldus sulfureus with the African elephant Jumbo Loxodonta africana drawn to scale
334
Scansorial Adaptation
337
Sloth Cholapus walking suspended from a branch
339
Skeleton of sloth Cholapus didactylus
341
Chameleon showing syndactylous hands and feet
344
Foot of a woodpecker Picus viridicanus showing fourth toe reversed for grasping
345
Volant Adaptation
347
Flying dragon Draco volans
350
Flying lemur Galeo pithecus volans
351
Structure of a feather
352
Wing of pheasant
353
Flying fish Exocatus spilopterus
356
Flying fish gurnet Dactylopterus volitans
357
Fossil flying fish Chirothrix libanicus
358
Lizard Ptychozoön homalocephalum
359
Pterodactyl Pteranodon longiceps
360
Reptilian bird Archæopteryx compared with pigeon Columba livia
361
Deepsea fishes
389
Desert Adaptation
393
Saiga antelope Saiga tartarica
402
Spiny lizard Moloch horridus
403
Their Nature and Interpretation
409
Insects preserved in amber
410
Pseudomorph Silurian chain coral Halysites catenulatus
412
Fossil footprints Anomæpus intermedius
414
Cephalopods
421
Squid Loligo sp capturing a fish
422
Anatomy of squid Ommastrephes illecebrosus female
423
Nautilus adhering by means of its tentacles
425
Chambered nautilus Nautilus pompilius in natural position the shell sectioned
427
Orthoceras shell
429
Cyrtoceras shell
430
Goniatoid shell
431
Belemnoid shell
434
Diagrammatic sections of dibranchiate shells
435
Giant squid Architeuthis princeps
436
Argonaut Argonauta argo female
437
Insects
438
Fishmoth Lepisma sp
444
Fossorial molecricket Gryllotalpa borcalis
445
Mayfly larva showing tracheal gills
448
Water beetle Hydrophilus triangularis
449
Trilobite Triarthrus becki restored
453
Origin of Vertebrates
460
Emergence of Terrestrial Vertebrates
477
Rise of Reptiles and Dominance of Dinosaurs
497
Beaked Dinosaurs and Origin of Birds
518
Origin of Mammals and Rise of Archaic Mammals
539
FIG PAGE 172 Triconodont mammal Triconodon ferox
545
Trituberculate mammal Diplocynodon victor
546
Brain proportions in archaic and modern mammals of similar size
550
Restorations of various creodonts
553
Fore and hind feet of Phenacodus primævus
554
Cursorial archaic mammal condylarth Phenacodus primævus
555
Swampdwelling amblypod Coryphodon
556
Skulls of Dinocerata to illustrate conservative character of dentition
557
Incursion of Modernized Mammals and Evolution of Carnivores
560
Various carnivora
563
Skulls of sabertooth Smilodon and biting cat Felis showing the contrast of skull form and leverage and the muscular development
566
Skulls of felines biting cats and machærodonts sabertooths
568
Restoration of the ancestral feline Dinictis
570
Restoration of the ancestral sabertooth Hoplophoneus
572
Restoration of the final sabertooth Smilodon
574
Proboscideans
577
Manatee Manatee australis
578
Fore foot of elephant Elephas indicus
580
Skull of elephant Elephas indicus sectioned
583
Molar tooth of elephant Elephas indicus
585
Embryonic elephant Loxodonta africana
587
Evolution of head and molar teeth of mastodons and elephants
590
Skull of Maritherium lyonsi
593
Skull of Palæomastodon
594
Skull of Dinotherium giganteum
595
Restoration of Trilophodon
596
Head of Tetralophodon lulli restored
597
Skull of Dibelodon andium
598
Restoration of the American mastodon
599
Restoration of the imperial elephant Elephas imperator
600
Restoration of the woolly mammoth Elephas primigenius
602
Horses
604
Dental battery of adult horse
607
Wearing surface of upper grinding teeth of horse Equus caballus
608
Restoration of fourtoed horse Eohippus
612
Restoration of fourtoed horse Orohippus
613
Restoration of threetoed horse Mesohippus
614
Camels
625
Ontogeny and Morphology
641
Paleontology
669
Epilogue The Pulse of Life
687
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