Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1877 - 396 páginas |
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... thero lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders , families , and genera , which havo now no living representatives , and which aro known to us only from having been found in a fossil state . As wo hero and thero ...
... thero lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders , families , and genera , which havo now no living representatives , and which aro known to us only from having been found in a fossil state . As wo hero and thero ...
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... thero is no plant so unproductivo as this - and their seedlings next year pro- duced two , and so on , then in twenty years there would be a million plants . The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder of all known animals , and ...
... thero is no plant so unproductivo as this - and their seedlings next year pro- duced two , and so on , then in twenty years there would be a million plants . The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder of all known animals , and ...
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... thero who havo no such belief from intuition , or faith in revelation ; but who have by careful and elaborate search in the phys ical , and more especially in the organic world , in- ferred , by induction , the existence of God from ...
... thero who havo no such belief from intuition , or faith in revelation ; but who have by careful and elaborate search in the phys ical , and more especially in the organic world , in- ferred , by induction , the existence of God from ...
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... thero is no scientific explanation possible of this series of facts , and of many others like them . Upon the new hypothesis , " the succession of the same types of structure within the same areas during the later geological periods ...
... thero is no scientific explanation possible of this series of facts , and of many others like them . Upon the new hypothesis , " the succession of the same types of structure within the same areas during the later geological periods ...
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... thero wore any dogs I Again , suppose wo have two well - known and ap- parently most decidedly different animals or plants , A and D ) , both presenting , in their structure and in their adaptations to the conditions of existence , as ...
... thero wore any dogs I Again , suppose wo have two well - known and ap- parently most decidedly different animals or plants , A and D ) , both presenting , in their structure and in their adaptations to the conditions of existence , as ...
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Página 133 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Página 147 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Página 233 - England and some other parts of Europe. So the Sequoias, now remarkable for their restricted station and numbers, as well as for their extraordinary size, are of an ancient stock ; their ancestors and kindred formed a large part of the forests which flourished throughout the polar regions, now desolate and iceclad, and which extended into low latitudes in Europe.
Página 271 - But the only distinct meaning of that word is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural, as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it must follow, that persons...
Página 29 - Altogether at least a score of pigeons might be chosen, which, if shown to an ornithologist, and he were told that they were wild birds, would certainly be ranked by him as well-defined species.
Página 178 - Hilaire, that is, against the supposition that time brings about a gradual alteration of whole species ; but it goes for little against Darwin, unless it be proved that species never vary, or that the perpetuation of a variety necessitates the extinction of the parent breed. For Darwin clearly maintains— what the facts warrant— that the mass of a species remains fixed so long as it exists at all, though it may set off a variety now and then. The variety may finally supersede the parent form...
Página 295 - ... part, without sensible effects. The little prisoner is not crushed and suddenly destroyed, as is sometimes supposed, for I have often liberated captive flies and spiders, which sped away as fast as fear or joy could hasten them. At other times I have found them enveloped in a fluid of mucilaginous consistence, which seems to act as a solvent, the insects being more or less consumed in it.
Página 15 - ... either hand, and say how much of truth there may be in each? The present reviewer has not the presumption to undertake such a task. Having no prepossession in favor of naturalistic theories, but struck with the eminent ability of Mr. Darwin's work, and charmed with its fairness, our humbler duty will be performed if, laying aside prejudice as much as we can, we shall succeed in giving a fair account of its method and argument, offering by the way a few suggestions, such as might occur to any...
Página 31 - If strange and rare deviations of structure are really inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. Perhaps the correct way of viewing the whole subject would be, to look at the inheritance of every character whatever as the rule, and non-inheritance as the anomaly.