Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1878 - 396 páginas |
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... clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants , have been introduced from Europe ; and there are plants which now range in India , as I hear from Dr. Falconer , from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya , which ...
... clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants , have been introduced from Europe ; and there are plants which now range in India , as I hear from Dr. Falconer , from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya , which ...
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... clothing an en- tangled bank , we are tempted to attribute their proportional numbers and kinds to what we call chance . But how false a view is this ! Every one has heard that when an American forest is cut down , a very different ...
... clothing an en- tangled bank , we are tempted to attribute their proportional numbers and kinds to what we call chance . But how false a view is this ! Every one has heard that when an American forest is cut down , a very different ...
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... cloth ; ask her how it was made , and she will say that the wool or cotton was carded , spun , and woven by hand . When you tell her it was not made by manual labor , that probably no hand has touched the materials throughout the ...
... cloth ; ask her how it was made , and she will say that the wool or cotton was carded , spun , and woven by hand . When you tell her it was not made by manual labor , that probably no hand has touched the materials throughout the ...
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... clothes . A new theory , like a new pair of breeches ( the Atlantic still affects the older type of nether garment ) , is sure to have hard - fitting places ; or , even when no particu- lar fault can be found with the article , it ...
... clothes . A new theory , like a new pair of breeches ( the Atlantic still affects the older type of nether garment ) , is sure to have hard - fitting places ; or , even when no particu- lar fault can be found with the article , it ...
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... clothes . Since , then , questions about the origin of species will be raised , and have been raised - and since the theorizings , however different in particulars , all pro- ceed upon the notion that one species of plant or animal is ...
... clothes . Since , then , questions about the origin of species will be raised , and have been raised - and since the theorizings , however different in particulars , all pro- ceed upon the notion that one species of plant or animal is ...
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Página 131 - 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.
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Página 38 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
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Página 276 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Página 18 - The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.
Página 104 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Página 18 - Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few have left living and modified descendants.
Página 40 - Climate plays an important part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical seasons of extreme cold or drought seem to be the most effective of all checks.