 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,...  Charles Darwin, His Life and Work - Стр. 106авторы: Charles Frederick Holder - 1891 - Страниц: 295Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Edmund Blair Bolles - 1999 - Страниц: 518
...though separated from that continent by an open space of ocean, between 500 and 600 miles in width. The archipelago is a little world within itself, or...the first appearance of new beings on this earth. [. . .] Of land-birds, I obtained twenty-six kinds, all peculiar to the group and found nowhere else,... | |
 | Stewart B. Peck, National Research Council Canada - 2001 - Страниц: 296
...unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhere near to that great fact - that mystery of mysteries...the first appearance of new beings on this earth." "I took great pains in collecting the insects [of the Galalapagos], but, excepting Tierra del Fuego,... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2002 - Страниц: 234
...curious," he wrote. "Most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. . . . We seem to be brought somewhat near to that great...mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth."55 The presence of immense tortoises on the Galapagos, along with other amazing inhabitants,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - Страниц: 676
...has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of the islands, we feel the more astonished at the number...the first appearance of new beings on this earth. Of terrestrial mammals, there is only one which must be considered as indigenous, namely, a mouse (Mus... | |
 | John Avery - 2003 - Страниц: 236
...of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.. Here... we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great...the first appearance of new beings on this earth" . The idea of the gradual modification of species could also explain the fact, observed by Darwin,... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - Страниц: 485
...taken and modified for different ends" (Darwin 1845: 276). Here, "we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries —...the first appearance of new beings on this earth." According to the legend, which Darwin himself thus helped construct, seeing the variety of different... | |
 | Michael Taussig - 2004 - Страниц: 368
...the Galapagos Islands, southwest of the island of Gorgona, young Charles Darwin was moved to comment: "Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought...mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth."1 Grasping chronology in a spatial image — in this case that of an island — was thought... | |
 | Michael Taussig - 2009 - Страниц: 359
...of the island of Gorgona, young Charles Darwin was moved to comment: "Hence, both in space and 263 time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that...mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth."1 Grasping chronology in a spatial image — in this case that of an island — was thought... | |
 | John Woram - 2005 - Страниц: 462
...extinct species by others." Darwin worked this into his 1845 Journal revision, where he tells us that We seem to be brought somewhat near to that great...the first appearance of new beings on this earth. He doesn't identify the writer, but he must have liked the writing— fourteen years later it shows... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2006 - Страниц: 224
...66 Notes 169 Selected Bibliography 185 Acknowledgments 1 88 Index 191 PROLOGUE Why Evolution Matters Hence both in space and time, we seem to be brought...the first appearance of new beings on this earth. — Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, 1845 In June 2004, the science historian Frank Sulloway... | |
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