The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895W. Blackwood and Sons, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina x
... ters of this book . Now , for some of the ancestral stages of man's d velopment a very high degree of probability can * See Phylogenetic Chart , p . 310 . claimed . One of man's earliest ancestors was almost certainly.
... ters of this book . Now , for some of the ancestral stages of man's d velopment a very high degree of probability can * See Phylogenetic Chart , p . 310 . claimed . One of man's earliest ancestors was almost certainly.
Pagina xi
... ancestor ? How did each of these ancestors look ? I do not know . It looks as if our ancestral tree were entirely uncertain and we were left without any founda- tion for history or argument . But the history of the development of ...
... ancestor ? How did each of these ancestors look ? I do not know . It looks as if our ancestral tree were entirely uncertain and we were left without any founda- tion for history or argument . But the history of the development of ...
Pagina xiii
... must be present , even though invisible to any microscope . Our study of the worm is inadequate and likely to mislead us , unless we remember that a worm xiv INTRODUCTION was the ancestor of man . And a INTRODUCTION xiii.
... must be present , even though invisible to any microscope . Our study of the worm is inadequate and likely to mislead us , unless we remember that a worm xiv INTRODUCTION was the ancestor of man . And a INTRODUCTION xiii.
Pagina xiv
... ancestor of man . And a biologist tell us nothing about man is neglecting his fair Conversely history and social science will re firmer basis when their students recognize tha human laws and institutions are heirlooms , the ments , or ...
... ancestor of man . And a biologist tell us nothing about man is neglecting his fair Conversely history and social science will re firmer basis when their students recognize tha human laws and institutions are heirlooms , the ments , or ...
Pagina 8
... ancestors lived on a barren soil beneath forbidding sky . They were frozen in winter a parched in summer . Nature was to them no kind foste mother , but a cruel stepmother , training them by ste discipline to battle with her and the ...
... ancestors lived on a barren soil beneath forbidding sky . They were frozen in winter a parched in summer . Nature was to them no kind foste mother , but a cruel stepmother , training them by ste discipline to battle with her and the ...
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