Chapters on EvolutionChatto & Windus, 1883 - 383 стор. |
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... common origin of the animals in question , can we explain why the arm of man , the wing of the bird , the horse's fore - limb , the dog's fore - leg , and the whale's paddle , are constructed on a common plan ? Or , again , why should ...
... common origin of the animals in question , can we explain why the arm of man , the wing of the bird , the horse's fore - limb , the dog's fore - leg , and the whale's paddle , are constructed on a common plan ? Or , again , why should ...
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... common material of living beings , are only appreciable when the nature of this curious and all - pervading substance is set forth in detail . No step is possible in biological advance until the facts relating to protoplasm and its ...
... common material of living beings , are only appreciable when the nature of this curious and all - pervading substance is set forth in detail . No step is possible in biological advance until the facts relating to protoplasm and its ...
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... common meaning usually attached thereto . As employed in ordinary life , or even in scientific circles , where exactness of language is a necessity for the clear expression of thought , the term has come to signify the study of the ...
... common meaning usually attached thereto . As employed in ordinary life , or even in scientific circles , where exactness of language is a necessity for the clear expression of thought , the term has come to signify the study of the ...
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... common animals , and which arise from the front of the kangaroo's haunch - bones . These are the so - called " marsupial bones , " on which the " pouch " these animals possess is supported . In connection with this fact of kangaroo ...
... common animals , and which arise from the front of the kangaroo's haunch - bones . These are the so - called " marsupial bones , " on which the " pouch " these animals possess is supported . In connection with this fact of kangaroo ...
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... common ancestor . " And the causes which have produced the striking likeness of this one feature in marsupial history are simply those which have also evolved , from a common origin , the varied features and new offshoots which mark the ...
... common ancestor . " And the causes which have produced the striking likeness of this one feature in marsupial history are simply those which have also evolved , from a common origin , the varied features and new offshoots which mark the ...
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adult air-bladder animal or plant animal world animalcule animals and plants appear appendages ascidian Axolotl barnacle become biological bird body bone buds Campodea carpels cells changes chiton cilia cloth extra colonial common complete connected constitution crab cross-fertilisation Crown 8vo crustaceans curious Darwin degeneration descent discover evolution exhibit existence fact favour fertilisation firstly fish flowers fossil frog germ gills higher animals idea Illustrations individual insects jaws lampshells lancelet larva larvæ latter life-history likewise limbs living lobster marsupials ment metamorphosis missing links modification molluscs named naturalist nature Nauplius neighbours notochord organisation organs origin pairs phases pistil pollen pollen-grains possess present primitive primrose protoplasm pteropod quadrupeds race regarded remarks represented reptiles resemblance Sacculina scientific sea-squirt seen segments skull species sponge stage stamens Starfishes structure tail theory tion to-day trace variation vertebrate whilst wings worm young zoophyte
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Сторінка 9 - 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.
Сторінка 8 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
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