The Doctrine of Descent and DarwinismD. Appleton, 1875 - 334 من الصفحات |
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... LANCELET • 216 217 · 251 24 . FULL - GROWN ASCIDIAN , 23. LARVA OF ASCIDIAN 25. IMPRESSION OF TAIL OF Archæopteryx 253 • 255 266 26. SKELETONS OF FEET : ANCHITHERIUM , HIPPARION , HORSE 274 THE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT AND DARWINISM . I ...
... LANCELET • 216 217 · 251 24 . FULL - GROWN ASCIDIAN , 23. LARVA OF ASCIDIAN 25. IMPRESSION OF TAIL OF Archæopteryx 253 • 255 266 26. SKELETONS OF FEET : ANCHITHERIUM , HIPPARION , HORSE 274 THE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT AND DARWINISM . I ...
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... The bee in itself is manifestly a far more complex organism than the lowest fish - like animal , the lancelet ; and in these two we compare a low form of a high type , and a high form of a low type . By varying and combining comparisons.
... The bee in itself is manifestly a far more complex organism than the lowest fish - like animal , the lancelet ; and in these two we compare a low form of a high type , and a high form of a low type . By varying and combining comparisons.
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... lancelet has no such head , but merely an anterior end . Nevertheless , it may be objected , it has a vertebral column ; yet this , the special badge of nobility of the vertebrate animals , like the auditory appa- ratus , and the ...
... lancelet has no such head , but merely an anterior end . Nevertheless , it may be objected , it has a vertebral column ; yet this , the special badge of nobility of the vertebrate animals , like the auditory appa- ratus , and the ...
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... Lancelet . From the analogy of all these animals , and especially of the last , we shall be able hereafter to derive important inductions . But if no weight be attached to the presence of these filaments of the external layer , which is ...
... Lancelet . From the analogy of all these animals , and especially of the last , we shall be able hereafter to derive important inductions . But if no weight be attached to the presence of these filaments of the external layer , which is ...
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... lancelet is completely eyeless , and therefore affords no clue . In other orders of animals , however , we still see in the systematic series of the present era every possible gra- dation , and thus possess a representation of the ...
... lancelet is completely eyeless , and therefore affords no clue . In other orders of animals , however , we still see in the systematic series of the present era every possible gra- dation , and thus possess a representation of the ...
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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.