Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes, Laws and Theories Relating to the Life and Evolution of AnimalsD. Appleton, 1907 - 489 páginas |
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... forms of inorganic bodies , as planets or mountains . Each one of these meanings is essentially dis- tinct from the ... form of a theory of encasement . Men imagined that the egg of the chicken con- tained a minute chicken , and that ...
... forms of inorganic bodies , as planets or mountains . Each one of these meanings is essentially dis- tinct from the ... form of a theory of encasement . Men imagined that the egg of the chicken con- tained a minute chicken , and that ...
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... forms , and by the closer and closer adaptation to conditions of life on the part of the forms most highly special- ized , the more perfect adaptation and the more elaborate specialization being associated with the greatest variety or ...
... forms , and by the closer and closer adaptation to conditions of life on the part of the forms most highly special- ized , the more perfect adaptation and the more elaborate specialization being associated with the greatest variety or ...
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... forms , their lineal de- scendants . The universal formula of the process of evolution is com- pactly stated by Herbert Spencer in these famous words : " Evolution is a continuous change from indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a ...
... forms , their lineal de- scendants . The universal formula of the process of evolution is com- pactly stated by Herbert Spencer in these famous words : " Evolution is a continuous change from indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a ...
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... forms and relations , and to forms and relations once abandoned they never return ; but the methods of change are , so far as we can see , immutable . The laws of life , the laws of death , and the laws of matter never change . If the ...
... forms and relations , and to forms and relations once abandoned they never return ; but the methods of change are , so far as we can see , immutable . The laws of life , the laws of death , and the laws of matter never change . If the ...
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... forms by processes of divergence and adaptation . According to this theory all forms of life now existing , or that have existed on the earth , have risen from other forms of life which have previously lived in turn . All characters and ...
... forms by processes of divergence and adaptation . According to this theory all forms of life now existing , or that have existed on the earth , have risen from other forms of life which have previously lived in turn . All characters and ...
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Evolution and animal life, an elementary discussion of facts, processes ... David Starr Jordan,Vernon Lyman Kellogg Visualização integral - 1908 |
Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes ... David Starr Jordan,Vernon Lyman Kellogg Visualização integral - 1907 |
Evolution and animal life, an elementary discussion of facts, processes ... David Starr Jordan,Vernon Lyman Kellogg Visualização integral - 1907 |
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actual adaptation adult animals and plants ants appear artificial selection become bees beetles biologists birds body breeding Burbank butterfly called causes centrosome changes characters chromatin chromosomes color and pattern common crab Darwin degeneration degree division egg cell embryo environment evolution existence fact factors fauna feeding female fertilized fishes forms fossils gastrula genus germ cells habit hatched heredity honeybee host hybrid individuals influence inheritance insects instinct islands isolation kinds of animals larva larvæ legs live lower male mammals ment modified mutations natural selection naturalists nest nucleus offspring organs Origin of Species original parasites parent phenomena plasm produced protoplasm Protozoa rabbit race relation reproduction resemblance rocks Sacculina sea anemone sexual sexual selection sheep simple species species-forming sperm spines stage structure tail tetrads theory tion traits tree variation various vertebrates Vries Weismann wings workers worm young
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Página 466 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Página 424 - ... duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. To do this effectually it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs: the first, that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited; the second, that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events.
Página 23 - ... x's and y's with which he works his problems, for real entities — and with this further disadvantage, as compared with the mathematician, that the blunders of the latter are of no practical consequence, while the errors of systematic materialism may paralyse the energies and destroy the beauty of a life.
Página 466 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Página 424 - We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
Página 61 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
Página 135 - Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied.
Página 455 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
Página 118 - Given any species in any region, the nearest related species is not likely to be found in the same region, nor in a remote region, but in a neighboring district, separated from the first by a barrier of some sort, or at least by a belt of country the breadth of which gives the effect of a barrier.