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 ix
... seem , therefore , to be in order to show that science is now competent to deal with this question ; not that she can give a final and conclusive answer , but that we can reach results which are probably in X INTRODUCTION the main ...
... seem , therefore , to be in order to show that science is now competent to deal with this question ; not that she can give a final and conclusive answer , but that we can reach results which are probably in X INTRODUCTION the main ...
Pagina x
... seem to be a genealogic tree of the animal kingdom . The means of trac this genealogical tree are given in the first chapt and the results in the second , third , and fourth cha ters of this book . Now , for some of the ancestral stages ...
... seem to be a genealogic tree of the animal kingdom . The means of trac this genealogical tree are given in the first chapt and the results in the second , third , and fourth cha ters of this book . Now , for some of the ancestral stages ...
Pagina xii
... seem therefore to be a fact . our series of forms described in the second , third , fourth chapters is merely a concrete illustration sh ing how this sequence may have been evolved . substitution of other terms in the anatomical se ...
... seem therefore to be a fact . our series of forms described in the second , third , fourth chapters is merely a concrete illustration sh ing how this sequence may have been evolved . substitution of other terms in the anatomical se ...
Pagina xiv
... seems to us to be a chaos of forces aiding or destroy ing good and bad , fit and unfit , alike . But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages , each a little higher than the pre- XV ceding , and surviving ...
... seems to us to be a chaos of forces aiding or destroy ing good and bad , fit and unfit , alike . But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages , each a little higher than the pre- XV ceding , and surviving ...
Pagina xv
... seem , therefore , not only justi- fiable , but imperative to attempt such a study . Our argument is not directly concerned with modern theories of heredity , or variation , or with the " omnipo- tence " or secondary importance of ...
... seem , therefore , not only justi- fiable , but imperative to attempt such a study . Our argument is not directly concerned with modern theories of heredity , or variation , or with the " omnipo- tence " or secondary importance of ...
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