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 4
... remains but He must comfort himself with the thought that he and his descendants can never gain an inch , t between himself and the next higher form sh far greater than that between himself and the monkey . And if this has been the ...
... remains but He must comfort himself with the thought that he and his descendants can never gain an inch , t between himself and the next higher form sh far greater than that between himself and the monkey . And if this has been the ...
Pagina 18
... remain unnoticed or unexplained that you would hardly believe that they I could have any genetic relation or belong to one developmental series . for you But the history which I must attempt to condense is measured by ages , and the ...
... remain unnoticed or unexplained that you would hardly believe that they I could have any genetic relation or belong to one developmental series . for you But the history which I must attempt to condense is measured by ages , and the ...
Pagina 25
... , but a step ; it is a long march from the egg to the earthworm ; and the vertebrate embryo makes a vast journey . But embryonic life is 26 THE and must remain short . Hence in higher THE PROBLEM : THE MODE OF ITS SOLUTION 25.
... , but a step ; it is a long march from the egg to the earthworm ; and the vertebrate embryo makes a vast journey . But embryonic life is 26 THE and must remain short . Hence in higher THE PROBLEM : THE MODE OF ITS SOLUTION 25.
Pagina 26
... remain short . Hence in higher forms the ancestral stages will often be slurred over and very in- completely represented . And the embryo may , and often does , shorten the path by " short - cuts " impossi- ble to its original ancestor ...
... remain short . Hence in higher forms the ancestral stages will often be slurred over and very in- completely represented . And the embryo may , and often does , shorten the path by " short - cuts " impossi- ble to its original ancestor ...
Pagina 35
... remain long in this condition . In contact with the oxygen from the air it is soon oxidized , burned up to furnish the energy neces- for the motion and irritability of the body . We are all of us low - temperature engines . The ...
... remain long in this condition . In contact with the oxygen from the air it is soon oxidized , burned up to furnish the energy neces- for the motion and irritability of the body . We are all of us low - temperature engines . The ...
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