The American Naturalist, Volumen30Essex Institute, 1896 |
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... less than half of the original Stentor, and these have also regenerated themselves to complete animals." Gruber, too, observed that artificially divided Infusoria were capable of subsequent spontaneous multiplication. If the section is ...
... less than half of the original Stentor, and these have also regenerated themselves to complete animals." Gruber, too, observed that artificially divided Infusoria were capable of subsequent spontaneous multiplication. If the section is ...
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... less general grounds of inference . Prof. Cope and the writer and some other authors have been for a number of years publishing observations upon this class of phenomena under the title of the law of acceleration , asserting that in ...
... less general grounds of inference . Prof. Cope and the writer and some other authors have been for a number of years publishing observations upon this class of phenomena under the title of the law of acceleration , asserting that in ...
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... less from the normal line of develop- ment , as determined by the more generalized development of allied types of the same divisions of the animal kingdom , with the normal characters that are in- herited at an early stage in the ...
... less from the normal line of develop- ment , as determined by the more generalized development of allied types of the same divisions of the animal kingdom , with the normal characters that are in- herited at an early stage in the ...
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... less prolonged recapitulation of the phylogeny , and coenogenesis would thus be properly confined to its original field wherever ctetic characters were introduced . This would avoid the need of using a new term . Guides for Science ...
... less prolonged recapitulation of the phylogeny , and coenogenesis would thus be properly confined to its original field wherever ctetic characters were introduced . This would avoid the need of using a new term . Guides for Science ...
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... less useful ancestral characteristics and even parts by those that have arisen later in the history of the group . We can fully understand the phenomena of accelera- tion in development only when we begin by assuming that the ...
... less useful ancestral characteristics and even parts by those that have arisen later in the history of the group . We can fully understand the phenomena of accelera- tion in development only when we begin by assuming that the ...
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Página 182 - Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures.
Página 818 - With this, the priest disappeared. I awoke at once and immediately told my wife the dream that I might not forget it. Next morning — Sunday — I examined the fragments once more in the light of these disclosures, and to my astonishment found all the details of the dream precisely verified in so far as the means of verification were in my hands. The original inscription on the votive cylinder read: "To the god Ninib, son of Bel, his lord, has Kurigalzu, pontifex of Bel, presented this.
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Página 643 - ... 3. They show no intimate association in areal distribution with the blue limestone, nor any tendency to grade into it." " 4. The metamorphic changes to which the white limestones have been subjected are general in their nature, and...
Página 525 - With the opposite (withdrawing, depressive affects) in injurious and painful conditions. ments) — but by the reinstatement of it by a discharge of the energies of the organism, concentrated as far as may be for the excessive stimulation of the organs (muscles, etc.) most nearly fitted by former habit to get this stimulation again (in which the " stimulation " stands for the condition favorable to adaptation).
Página 952 - We must therefore picture to ourselves a fertile plain occupying the whole of the Bristol Channel, and supporting herds of reindeer, horses, and bisons, many elephants and rhinoceroses, and now and then being traversed by a stray hippopotamus, which would afford abundant prey to the lions, bears, and hyaenas, inhabiting all the accessible caves, as well as to their great enemy and destroyer, man."* III.
Página 416 - heightened discharge " are capable of formulation of the principle of " motor excess " : " the accommodation of an organism to a new stimulation is secured — not by the selection of this stimulation beforehand (nor of the necessary movements) — but by the reinstatement of it by a discharge of the energies of the organism, concentrated, as far as may be, for the excessive stimulation of the organs (muscles, etc.), most nearly fitted by former habit to get this stimulation again," '' in which...
Página 495 - ... on the way to Pawtucket; he wanted to get away somewhere — he didn't know where — and have rest. He had six or seven hundred dollars with him when he went into the store. He lived very closely, boarded by himself, and did his own cooking. He went to church, and also to one prayer-meeting. At one of these meetings he spoke about a boy who had kneeled down and prayed in the midst of the passengers on a steamboat from Albany to New York [an incident of which he was well aware in the Ansel Bourne...