The Doctrine of Descent and DarwinismD. Appleton, 1875 - 334 من الصفحات |
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... DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS IN THE LIGHT OF THE DOCTRINE OF DERIVATION + XI . The Pedigree of Vertebrate ANIMALS MAN REFERENCES AND QUOTATIONS 195 222 248 XII . • 282 3II LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . FIG . I. LEGS OF BIRD viii CONTENTS .
... DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS IN THE LIGHT OF THE DOCTRINE OF DERIVATION + XI . The Pedigree of Vertebrate ANIMALS MAN REFERENCES AND QUOTATIONS 195 222 248 XII . • 282 3II LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . FIG . I. LEGS OF BIRD viii CONTENTS .
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... derivation or descent , for the doctrine of the gradual and direct development of the higher and now - existing organisms from lower ancestral forms - in short , for the doctrine of the continuity of life , we must begin with a survey of ...
... derivation or descent , for the doctrine of the gradual and direct development of the higher and now - existing organisms from lower ancestral forms - in short , for the doctrine of the continuity of life , we must begin with a survey of ...
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... derivation of the cranium from the verte- bral bones was revealed to him . " The more special history of Comparative Anatomy has shown how ex- GOETHE . III tremely fruitful was this supposed discovery , IIO THE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT .
... derivation of the cranium from the verte- bral bones was revealed to him . " The more special history of Comparative Anatomy has shown how ex- GOETHE . III tremely fruitful was this supposed discovery , IIO THE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT .
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... derivation from a lower grade , it is of supreme importance to bear in mind the circumstance first exhibited by Helmholtz in the eye , that besides a number of perfections , they likewise possess a number of imperfections , and ...
... derivation from a lower grade , it is of supreme importance to bear in mind the circumstance first exhibited by Helmholtz in the eye , that besides a number of perfections , they likewise possess a number of imperfections , and ...
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... derivation , and applied this principle to all the phenomena of the organic world , the systematic school was effectually subdued by that same doctrine of Descent , thus fortified and established , after which Lamarck had striven in ...
... derivation , and applied this principle to all the phenomena of the organic world , the systematic school was effectually subdued by that same doctrine of Descent , thus fortified and established , after which Lamarck had striven in ...
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according adaptation already Ammonites Amphibians animal world apes appearance Ascidian become birds brain causes Cetacea character characteristics comparative anatomy complete connection continent Darwin dentition derivation diverge doctrine of Descent Echinoderms embryonic Eocene exhibit external facts families fauna fish formation fossil Ganoids Gastrula genera genus geological Goethe grade gradually groups Haeckel heredity higher horse human hypothesis idea individual infer intermediate forms islands lancelet language larva larvæ likewise linguistic Linnæus lower mammals Marsupials Medusa ment merely metamorphosis modifications morphological mutability natural selection observation Oolite organisms origin peculiar pedigree perfect period phase phenomena placenta plants polypes possess present primordial progenitors races relations remains reproduction reptiles resemblance Rütimeyer says scarcely scientific separate sexual Silurian skull species sponges strata structure systematic terrestrial animals Tertiary theory of selection tion transformation transition true Ungulata Ungulates varieties vegetal vertebral column Vertebrata vertebrate animals whole
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الصفحة 162 - 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.18 Darwin always knew that his views would be controversial. A few days before The Origin of Species appeared, Darwin wrote, in a letter to Wallace, 'God knows what...
الصفحة 160 - I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear to be, as far as we can judge, neither beneficial nor injurious ; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
الصفحة 160 - Na'geli on plants, and the remarks by various authors with respect to animals, more especially those recently made by Professor Broca, that in the earlier editions of my Origin of Species I perhaps attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest.