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 vi
... Environment one . - But lower animals come into vital relation with but a small part of it . It consists of a myriad of forces , which , as acting on a given form , may be considered as one grand resultant vi TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... Environment one . - But lower animals come into vital relation with but a small part of it . It consists of a myriad of forces , which , as acting on a given form , may be considered as one grand resultant vi TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Pagina vii
... lower in man . - As a religious being . - As hero . He has not yet attained . - Future man . He will utilize all his powers , duly subordinating the lower to the higher . - The triumph of the common people . CHAPTER IX THE TEACHINGS OF ...
... lower in man . - As a religious being . - As hero . He has not yet attained . - Future man . He will utilize all his powers , duly subordinating the lower to the higher . - The triumph of the common people . CHAPTER IX THE TEACHINGS OF ...
Pagina x
... lower animal . same time it concerns our argument but little natural selection is " omnipotent " or of only sec importance in evolution , as long as it is a real or which theory of heredity or variation is the probable . If man has been ...
... lower animal . same time it concerns our argument but little natural selection is " omnipotent " or of only sec importance in evolution , as long as it is a real or which theory of heredity or variation is the probable . If man has been ...
Pagina xi
... lower mammalian ancestral stages . But what kind of fish , what species of amphibian , what form of reptiles most closely resembles the old ancestor ? How did each of these ancestors look ? I do not know . It looks as if our ancestral ...
... lower mammalian ancestral stages . But what kind of fish , what species of amphibian , what form of reptiles most closely resembles the old ancestor ? How did each of these ancestors look ? I do not know . It looks as if our ancestral ...
Pagina xiii
... lower stages the germs of the higher 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 ...
... lower stages the germs of the higher 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 ...
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