The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... traits such as dwarfism , deaf- mutism , hemophilia , classification of human beings on basis of mental powers . Feeble - minded , normal , genius . Evidence as to share played by heredity and environment in reproducing these types ...
... traits such as dwarfism , deaf- mutism , hemophilia , classification of human beings on basis of mental powers . Feeble - minded , normal , genius . Evidence as to share played by heredity and environment in reproducing these types ...
الصفحة 114
... traits . He has thus developed the old " love apple , " which was little more than a seedy core with an attractive skin , into the luscious tomato , now one of the most important and valuable vege- tables of the garden . He has produced ...
... traits . He has thus developed the old " love apple , " which was little more than a seedy core with an attractive skin , into the luscious tomato , now one of the most important and valuable vege- tables of the garden . He has produced ...
الصفحة 191
... traits sometimes appeared generation after generation . So the Romans applied such names as Capitones , Labiones to families characterized by peculiar heads and lips , and so Tacitus explained the features of the Germans by saying that ...
... traits sometimes appeared generation after generation . So the Romans applied such names as Capitones , Labiones to families characterized by peculiar heads and lips , and so Tacitus explained the features of the Germans by saying that ...
الصفحة 211
... trait and no exception to this is known . Bateson was able to list seventeen cases all of whom were color - blind . " Among other sex - linked traits in man Guyer names : hemophilia , a serious condition in which the blood will not clot ...
... trait and no exception to this is known . Bateson was able to list seventeen cases all of whom were color - blind . " Among other sex - linked traits in man Guyer names : hemophilia , a serious condition in which the blood will not clot ...
الصفحة 212
... traits Mendelize . " 9 Some of these which are of social significance will be discussed in a later chapter . Here we are attempting to state the case only . In the human eye when the coloring matter exists only on the inner side of the ...
... traits Mendelize . " 9 Some of these which are of social significance will be discussed in a later chapter . Here we are attempting to state the case only . In the human eye when the coloring matter exists only on the inner side of the ...
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الصفحة 155 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 139 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 58 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
الصفحة 139 - In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would...
الصفحة 54 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
الصفحة 186 - The two parents between them contribute on the average onehalf of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing onequarter of it. The four grandparents contribute between them one-quarter, or each of them one-sixteenth ; and so on, the sum of the series i + J + i + TV + , being equal to 1, as it should be.
الصفحة 126 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
الصفحة 58 - I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
الصفحة 159 - I can conceive in biology would be the discovery of the instability which leads to the continual division of the cell. When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
الصفحة 58 - I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2,290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one.