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 xiii
... successive stages of animal and human development , if we can further be convinced that the sequence is irreversible , we shall be convinced that future man will be more and more com- pletely controlled by the very highest powers or ...
... successive stages of animal and human development , if we can further be convinced that the sequence is irreversible , we shall be convinced that future man will be more and more com- pletely controlled by the very highest powers or ...
Pagina xiv
... 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 , for a time at.
... 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 , for a time at.
Pagina xv
... successive efforts , each attaining a little more complete conformity than the preceding . From such a history we ought to be able to draw certain valid deductions concerning general character and laws of our environment , to discover ...
... successive efforts , each attaining a little more complete conformity than the preceding . From such a history we ought to be able to draw certain valid deductions concerning general character and laws of our environment , to discover ...
Pagina 11
... successive generations to march across the continent . And yet even they give but a faint idea of the re- productive powers of plants and animals . The female fish produces often many thousands , sometimes hun- dreds of thousands of ...
... successive generations to march across the continent . And yet even they give but a faint idea of the re- productive powers of plants and animals . The female fish produces often many thousands , sometimes hun- dreds of thousands of ...
Pagina 18
... successive stages would be so remote from one another , such vast changes would necessarily remain unnoticed or unexplained that you would hardly believe that they I could have any genetic relation or belong to one developmental series ...
... successive stages would be so remote from one another , such vast changes would necessarily remain unnoticed or unexplained that you would hardly believe that they I could have any genetic relation or belong to one developmental series ...
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amoeba amphibia anatomical ancestors animal kingdom annelid apes appear appetite attained become birds body brain cavity cells cerebrum Cheaper Edition church conformity to environment conscious Crown 8vo degeneration Demy 8vo digestive dominant ectoderm embryo evolution experience eyes Fcap fish functions ganglion gastrula germ-plasm give groups higher forms highest human hydra Illustrations increase individual insect instinct intelligence laws layer legs living locomotion lower mammals man's marsupial ment mental mind mode modified mollusks moral muscles muscular natural selection nerve nervous system never notochord nutriment organs oxygen parapodia perception perivisceral Portrait Post 8vo primitive probably Professor progress protoplasm protozoa purely reflex action reproductive reptiles result schematic worm Scotland segments selfish sense-organs sequence skeleton species stage structure struggle surface survive swimming theory tion true truth turbellaria University of Edinburgh variation velopment vertebral column vertebrates vols volvox WHITHER young