Charles Darwin, His Life and WorkPutnam, 1891 - Всего страниц: 295 |
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... remains suggested to the mind of Darwin many questions pregnant with interest , not the least of which was the geographical distribution of ani- mals . He divided North and South America at the lofty table - land of Mexico , which would ...
... remains suggested to the mind of Darwin many questions pregnant with interest , not the least of which was the geographical distribution of ani- mals . He divided North and South America at the lofty table - land of Mexico , which would ...
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... it was much more closely related in its zoölogical characters to the temperate parts of Europe and Asia than it now is . As the remains of these genera are found on both sides of Behring's Straits and on the plains of Siberia , we.
... it was much more closely related in its zoölogical characters to the temperate parts of Europe and Asia than it now is . As the remains of these genera are found on both sides of Behring's Straits and on the plains of Siberia , we.
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... remains , and often named places for them : thus an elevation was called " the hill of the giant , " and a river “ the stream of the animal . " The investigations of the naturalist were not confined to the inanimate and the lower ...
... remains , and often named places for them : thus an elevation was called " the hill of the giant , " and a river “ the stream of the animal . " The investigations of the naturalist were not confined to the inanimate and the lower ...
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... remains of at least twenty of these animals in a re- stricted area . Referring to this in his note - book he says : " I do not at all understand the reason of this , but I may observe that the wounded guanacos at the Santa Cruz ...
... remains of at least twenty of these animals in a re- stricted area . Referring to this in his note - book he says : " I do not at all understand the reason of this , but I may observe that the wounded guanacos at the Santa Cruz ...
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... remains which he found showed that in the past the country was peopled with a race of giants which had given way to pigmies . The land which once trembled under the tread of the huge sloth , and saw the monster armadillo , was now ...
... remains which he found showed that in the past the country was peopled with a race of giants which had given way to pigmies . The land which once trembled under the tread of the huge sloth , and saw the monster armadillo , was now ...
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Стр. 182 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Стр. 106 - Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of...
Стр. 160 - ... would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament...
Стр. 2 - I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject. Much attention was paid to learning by heart the lessons of the previous day; this I could effect with great facility, learning forty or fifty lines of Virgil or Homer, whilst I was in morning chapel; but this exercise was utterly useless, for every verse was forgotten in forty-eight hours. I was not idle, and with the exception of versification,...
Стр. 115 - I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation in structure between two objects apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature, as a crab and a cocoa-nut tree.
Стр. 4 - ... I often became quite absorbed, and once, whilst returning to school on the summit of the old fortifications round Shrewsbury, which had been converted into a public foot-path with no parapet on one side, I walked off and fell to the ground, but the height was only seven or eight feet. Nevertheless the number of thoughts which passed through my mind during this very short, but sudden and wholly unexpected fall, was astonishing, and seem hardly compatible with what physiologists have, I believe,...
Стр. 109 - I have not as yet noticed by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago; it is, that the different islands to a considerable extent are inhabited by a different set of beings. My attention was first called to this fact by the Vice-Governor, Mr. Lawson, declaring that the tortoises differed from the different islands, and that he could with certainty tell from which island any one was brought.
Стр. 24 - Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.
Стр. 70 - While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface, which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train.