Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 páginas |
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... according to this fatuous theory , man is descended from a monkey . Naturally no well - minded per- sons will consent to be pithecoid in origin , whether they know what pithecoid means or not ; still less can a theory be accepted as ...
... according to this fatuous theory , man is descended from a monkey . Naturally no well - minded per- sons will consent to be pithecoid in origin , whether they know what pithecoid means or not ; still less can a theory be accepted as ...
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... according to their supposed importance we might call specific or generic . But besides this , there is the very curious principle of Re- version to be taken into account , as largely conducing to the comparative permanence of species ...
... according to their supposed importance we might call specific or generic . But besides this , there is the very curious principle of Re- version to be taken into account , as largely conducing to the comparative permanence of species ...
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... according to the very lowest probable rate of natural increase , a single pair would in five hundred years have a progeny of fifteen million living elephants 2. Now fancy an island like our own , only in a climate suitable to elephants ...
... according to the very lowest probable rate of natural increase , a single pair would in five hundred years have a progeny of fifteen million living elephants 2. Now fancy an island like our own , only in a climate suitable to elephants ...
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... according to human notions , is it a nobler conception that God should have made successively groups of beings to fill the world , and then swept them away to make room for others nearly like them ; each time , as it were , im- proving ...
... according to human notions , is it a nobler conception that God should have made successively groups of beings to fill the world , and then swept them away to make room for others nearly like them ; each time , as it were , im- proving ...
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... according as it is placed among firm and stiff branches , or suspended from the slender wind - swayed twigs of the weeping - willow 2. The fact that birds build in 1 Good Words for the Young , ' June 1870. Animal Defences . By A. W. ...
... according as it is placed among firm and stiff branches , or suspended from the slender wind - swayed twigs of the weeping - willow 2. The fact that birds build in 1 Good Words for the Young , ' June 1870. Animal Defences . By A. W. ...
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