The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... and cotton , welcomed the Negro slaves and made the county the unit of government , the scattered house- 18 SEMPLE , E. T. Influences of Geographical Environment , p . 43 . hold the ideal of life . There is no more EARTH AND MAN 31.
... and cotton , welcomed the Negro slaves and made the county the unit of government , the scattered house- 18 SEMPLE , E. T. Influences of Geographical Environment , p . 43 . hold the ideal of life . There is no more EARTH AND MAN 31.
الصفحة 32
... Negro . In Polar regions man must even today be a fisher and hunter , living on meat alone , unless he keep in touch with other people , when he may be a miner . On the whole the temperate zones have been most favorable to him , and no ...
... Negro . In Polar regions man must even today be a fisher and hunter , living on meat alone , unless he keep in touch with other people , when he may be a miner . On the whole the temperate zones have been most favorable to him , and no ...
الصفحة 34
... Negro , when in the shade , is able to radiate heat better than whites and this enables him to keep cool in the tropics , but puts him at a disadvantage in the north where a white man can keep warmer with less clothing and less fire in ...
... Negro , when in the shade , is able to radiate heat better than whites and this enables him to keep cool in the tropics , but puts him at a disadvantage in the north where a white man can keep warmer with less clothing and less fire in ...
الصفحة 207
... Negro is due to two double factors . Other observers have reported that seven factors are involved in producing the color of the mouse , and eight for the rabbit . It may be that there is no true blend but that we are dealing with ...
... Negro is due to two double factors . Other observers have reported that seven factors are involved in producing the color of the mouse , and eight for the rabbit . It may be that there is no true blend but that we are dealing with ...
الصفحة 277
... Negro . 3. The Caucasian or European , possibly descended in a direct line from the Australoid or basal stock , with which in any case it is closely allied . 4. The Mongolic or Asiamerican . " An ancient mingling of ( 1 ) , ( RACE ...
... Negro . 3. The Caucasian or European , possibly descended in a direct line from the Australoid or basal stock , with which in any case it is closely allied . 4. The Mongolic or Asiamerican . " An ancient mingling of ( 1 ) , ( RACE ...
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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.