The American Naturalist, Volumen30Essex Institute, 1896 |
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... regards the death of a Protozoon as immediately comparable with the death of a Metazoon . If we seek from Weismann for the foundation of this view we shall have only our labor for our pains . Starting from this view Weismann comes to ...
... regards the death of a Protozoon as immediately comparable with the death of a Metazoon . If we seek from Weismann for the foundation of this view we shall have only our labor for our pains . Starting from this view Weismann comes to ...
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... regard to the serial connections of forms . The importance of studying the seriality in structure of the members of the same group , those gradations , which lead from one variety to another , one species to another , one genus to ...
... regard to the serial connections of forms . The importance of studying the seriality in structure of the members of the same group , those gradations , which lead from one variety to another , one species to another , one genus to ...
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... regard to Haeckel's opinions . He certainly had at that time , 1891 , what seems to me erroneous and inadequate view of the nature and action of the laws of tachygenesis and gave it too limited application . He also used the terms ...
... regard to Haeckel's opinions . He certainly had at that time , 1891 , what seems to me erroneous and inadequate view of the nature and action of the laws of tachygenesis and gave it too limited application . He also used the terms ...
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... regard to natural standards , such expressions are inadmissable . There is absolutely no evidence that characteristics repeated in the younger stages of successive species and types owe their likeness to ancestral characters to other ...
... regard to natural standards , such expressions are inadmissable . There is absolutely no evidence that characteristics repeated in the younger stages of successive species and types owe their likeness to ancestral characters to other ...
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... regards size and strength . Unfortunately nothing is known of the skeleton of H. cere- bralis , but judging from the size of the skull it would be the smallest of the series , although probably not much smaller than that of H. oreodon ...
... regards size and strength . Unfortunately nothing is known of the skeleton of H. cere- bralis , but judging from the size of the skull it would be the smallest of the series , although probably not much smaller than that of H. oreodon ...
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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...