| Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 páginas
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, and innumerable other such facts, at once...descent with slow and slight successive modifications. — p. 479. Such assumptions as these, we once more repeat, are most dishonourable and injurious to... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1923 - 346 páginas
...porpoise, and leg of a horse, the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, and innumerable other such facts, at once...descent with slow and slight successive modifications." I do not mean to go through your correspondent's letter, otherwise " I could hardly reprehend in sufficiently... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 páginas
...natural selection, with its contingencies of extinction and divergence of character " (p. 478). Again: " Innumerable other such facts at once explain themselves...descent with slow and slight successive modifications " (p-479> Again: " Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 páginas
...natural selection, with its contingencies of extinction and divergence of character " (p. 478). Again: " Innumerable other such facts at once explain themselves...descent with slow and slight successive modifications " (P- 479> Again: " Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 páginas
...same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, - and innumerable other facts, at once explain themselves on the theory of...descent with slow and slight successive modifications ... On the principle of successive variations not always supervening at an early age, and being inherited... | |
| Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 páginas
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...similarity of pattern in the wing and leg of a bat, though used for such different purpose, — in the jaws and legs of a crab, — in the petals, stamens,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 páginas
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...similarity of pattern in the wing and leg of a bat, though used for such different purpose, — in the jaws and legs of a crab, — in the petals, stamens,... | |
| Philip A. Rolnick - 2007 - 281 páginas
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...theory of descent with slow and slight successive modifications.3 Darwin believed that all animals (and similarly, plants) were descended from at most... | |
| Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 páginas
...porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at...similarity of pattern in the wing and leg of a bat, though used for such different purposes, — in the jaws and legs of a crab, — in the petals, stamens,... | |
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