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 xi
... 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 tree were entirely uncertain and we were left without any founda ...
... 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 tree were entirely uncertain and we were left without any founda ...
Pagina 3
... species . are 1 We may say broadly that concerning the origin of species two theories , and only two , seem possible . The first theory is that every species is the result of an act of immediate creation . And every true species ...
... species . are 1 We may say broadly that concerning the origin of species two theories , and only two , seem possible . The first theory is that every species is the result of an act of immediate creation . And every true species ...
Pagina 4
... species . Each one of its little span of time , for species are usually tively short - lived , grows possibly a very li or worse , and dies . Its progress has added the total of life ; its degeneration harmed hardly even itself ; it was ...
... species . Each one of its little span of time , for species are usually tively short - lived , grows possibly a very li or worse , and dies . Its progress has added the total of life ; its degeneration harmed hardly even itself ; it was ...
Pagina 5
... species , or development of the flower out of the green leaves of some old club moss or similar form ? The latter seems to me at least by far the higher mode . And to have created a 6 THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER O ground - pine THE ...
... species , or development of the flower out of the green leaves of some old club moss or similar form ? The latter seems to me at least by far the higher mode . And to have created a 6 THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER O ground - pine THE ...
Pagina 7
... species is the more natural and has always been accepted , while the theory of evolu- tion is new and very likely to be as short - lived as many another theory which has for a time fascinated men only to be forgotten or ridiculed . But ...
... species is the more natural and has always been accepted , while the theory of evolu- tion is new and very likely to be as short - lived as many another theory which has for a time fascinated men only to be forgotten or ridiculed . But ...
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