 | Joseph McFarland - 1913 - Страниц: 526
...young, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may_ well represent the classification of all extinct and...groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which once flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet... | |
 | James Francis Abbott - 1914 - Страниц: 372
...elephant and its genetic predecessors. The ancestor of the modern elephant, the remains of which have been ramifying branches may well represent the classification...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... | |
 | Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - 1924 - Страниц: 606
...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds, by ramifying branches,...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... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - Страниц: 374
...the tree was at one time a mere bush. Now of the many twigs which flourished at that remote period, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear other branches. This is because, from the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed... | |
 | William S. Knickerbocker - 1927 - Страниц: 410
...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs ; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...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... | |
 | Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.) - 1980 - Страниц: 784
...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs; and this connection of former and present buds by ramifying branches may...and living species in groups subordinate to groups." Darwin recognized that one basis for resistance to discontinuity was the strong desire among seventeenth-... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 484
...species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches,...was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into groat branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches ; so with the species which lived during... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - Страниц: 292
...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during longpast geological periods, very few have... | |
 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - Страниц: 224
...lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs, and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches...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... | |
 | Alec L. Panchen - 1992 - Страниц: 420
...and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species . . . and this connexion of the former and present buds...and living species in groups subordinate to groups. One might well ask who before had used the simile of "a great tree". One answer is certainly "Alfred... | |
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The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was... 
