Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 páginas |
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... living creature than a pigeon . Another estimate will dismiss the whole subject , scathed with indignant laughter , by simply explaining , that , according to this fatuous theory , man is descended from a monkey . Naturally no well ...
... living creature than a pigeon . Another estimate will dismiss the whole subject , scathed with indignant laughter , by simply explaining , that , according to this fatuous theory , man is descended from a monkey . Naturally no well ...
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... living creatures , and including , in an almost infinite variety , lichen and moss , mite and mildew , grass and flower and branch- ing tree ; mollusk and reptile and fish ; the swan , the petrel , the ostrich and the eagle ; the ...
... living creatures , and including , in an almost infinite variety , lichen and moss , mite and mildew , grass and flower and branch- ing tree ; mollusk and reptile and fish ; the swan , the petrel , the ostrich and the eagle ; the ...
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... living forms whatsoever are de- scended from a very few original ancestors of the simplest type , and that this primæval group itself had , probably , a common parentage . Wildly improbable , ludicrously absurd , degrading to humanity ...
... living forms whatsoever are de- scended from a very few original ancestors of the simplest type , and that this primæval group itself had , probably , a common parentage . Wildly improbable , ludicrously absurd , degrading to humanity ...
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... living creatures on this earth spring from a very few ; extremely simple , original germs of life , we have to explain how it is that now there is an enormous variety of highly organised crea- tures , and at the same time some of ...
... living creatures on this earth spring from a very few ; extremely simple , original germs of life , we have to explain how it is that now there is an enormous variety of highly organised crea- tures , and at the same time some of ...
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Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing. still living at the present day ? The solution is easy to suggest , that the offspring of very simple forms are sometimes exactly like their parents , and sometimes not exactly like . From what has been said ...
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing. still living at the present day ? The solution is easy to suggest , that the offspring of very simple forms are sometimes exactly like their parents , and sometimes not exactly like . From what has been said ...
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