| 1849 - 488 páginas
...little world within itself; most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out." These islands swarm with herbivorous marine and terrestrial reptiles allied to the Iguanidae, which... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 páginas
...character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings,...spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be~7 brought somewhat near to that great fact—that/ IT.—N 10 Of terrestrial mammals, there is only... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1848 - 478 páginas
...world within itself : most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in time and space, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries... | |
| 1848 - 874 páginas
...world within itself: most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in time and space, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries... | |
| 1848 - 876 páginas
...world within itself: most of the organic predictions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, I we are led to believe that, within a period geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread... | |
| 1849 - 1118 páginas
...world within itself ; most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the...geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out." These islands swarm with herbivorous marine and terrestrial reptiles allied to the Iguanida?, which... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1876 - 586 páginas
...character of its indigenous productions. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings,...still distinct, we are led to believe that within i period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here sprv*. out. Hence, botli in space and time,... | |
| Grant Allen - 1885 - 226 páginas
...between 500 and 600 miles in width. . . . Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings,...that within a period geologically recent the unbroken sea was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to that... | |
| Grant Allen - 1885 - 238 páginas
...lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period geologically recent the unbroken sea was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 228 páginas
...of the Galapagos fauna. " Considering the small size of these islands," he says, "we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings,...with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period geologically recent the unbroken... | |
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