The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895C. Scribner's Sons, 1899 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina xi
... look ? I do not know . It looks as if our ancestral tree were entirely uncertain and we were left without any founda- tion for history or argument . But the history of the development of anatomical details , however important and ...
... look ? I do not know . It looks as if our ancestral tree were entirely uncertain and we were left without any founda- tion for history or argument . But the history of the development of anatomical details , however important and ...
Pagina xiv
... look about us in the world , environment often 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 ...
... look about us in the world , environment often 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 ...
Pagina xiv
... look about us in the world, environment often seems to us to be a chaos of forces aiding or destroying good and bad, fit and unfit, alike. But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages, each a little higher ...
... look about us in the world, environment often seems to us to be a chaos of forces aiding or destroying good and bad, fit and unfit, alike. But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages, each a little higher ...
Pagina 2
... be an inference from its knowledge as to whence we have come . The Bible looks mainly at the present and future ; Science must at least begin with the study of the past . The deciphering of man's 2 THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MAN.
... be an inference from its knowledge as to whence we have come . The Bible looks mainly at the present and future ; Science must at least begin with the study of the past . The deciphering of man's 2 THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MAN.
Pagina 6
... look dispassion- ately at plants . The rose is still and always a rose , and the oak an oak , whatever its origin . And I be- lieve that we shall all readily admit that evolution is here a theory which does the highest honor to the wis ...
... look dispassion- ately at plants . The rose is still and always a rose , and the oak an oak , whatever its origin . And I be- lieve that we shall all readily admit that evolution is here a theory which does the highest honor to the wis ...
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advance amoeba amphibia anatomical ancestors animal kingdom annelid apes appear appetite archenteron attained become beginning better birds body brain cells cerebrum characteristics conformity to environment conscious degeneration digestion and reproduction dominant embryo embryology entoderm existence experience eyes fish functions future ganglion gastrula germ-plasm give groups higher forms highest human hydra important increase individual insect instinct intelligence jaws knowledge laws layer legs living locomotion lower mammals man's marsupial ment mental mind mode modified mollusks moral motives muscles muscular muscular system natural selection nephridia nerve nervous system never notochord nutriment organs oxygen parapodia perception possible primitive probably progress protoplasm protozoa purely race reflex action reptiles result schematic worm segments selfish sense-organs sequence shell skeleton species spermatozoa stage structure struggle surface survive swimming tion tissues true truth turbellaria unselfishness variation velopment vertebral column vertebrates volvox young