Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 páginas |
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... give no milk ; pistils , in male florets ; in insects wings too small for flight , and soldered to the wing cases ; the fifth toe in the hind - foot of the dog ; the spur of the hen ; the wing of the Apteryx ; and the stunted ...
... give no milk ; pistils , in male florets ; in insects wings too small for flight , and soldered to the wing cases ; the fifth toe in the hind - foot of the dog ; the spur of the hen ; the wing of the Apteryx ; and the stunted ...
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... give its possessor a superior chance of surviving , while the smallest that is disadvantageous will diminish the chance . Take the apposite instance of a number of quadrupeds incapable of climbing , supported by brows- ing on the leaves ...
... give its possessor a superior chance of surviving , while the smallest that is disadvantageous will diminish the chance . Take the apposite instance of a number of quadrupeds incapable of climbing , supported by brows- ing on the leaves ...
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... gives a key to the whole grand uninter- rupted plan . It carries back the mind to a period when the earth was destitute of life ; when yet , as it were , the thought in the Divine mind was still unspoken , that of one , and that as good ...
... gives a key to the whole grand uninter- rupted plan . It carries back the mind to a period when the earth was destitute of life ; when yet , as it were , the thought in the Divine mind was still unspoken , that of one , and that as good ...
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... gives a kettledrum , we say , ' all the world was at it , ' although 500 persons could not have been squeezed into the rooms without being suffocated ; or we say , so and so is a thing which every school - boy knows , ' when we only ...
... gives a kettledrum , we say , ' all the world was at it , ' although 500 persons could not have been squeezed into the rooms without being suffocated ; or we say , so and so is a thing which every school - boy knows , ' when we only ...
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... give some account of their re - distribution . Instead of worrying ourselves with the problem , shall we at once solve it by asserting that they were miraculously re- transferred to the habitations from which they came ? This will be a ...
... give some account of their re - distribution . Instead of worrying ourselves with the problem , shall we at once solve it by asserting that they were miraculously re- transferred to the habitations from which they came ? This will be a ...
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