The Study of Animal LifeScribner, 1892 - 375 páginas |
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... substances of great complexity and instability , substances very sensitive to impulses from , or changes in , their surroundings . It may be that living matter differs from dead matter in no other way than this . The varied forms of ...
... substances of great complexity and instability , substances very sensitive to impulses from , or changes in , their surroundings . It may be that living matter differs from dead matter in no other way than this . The varied forms of ...
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... substances is used in locomotion and work . In so working , and eventually in dying , they form waste - products - water and carbonic acid , ammonia and nitrates , and so on - which may be again utilised by plants . How often is the ...
... substances is used in locomotion and work . In so working , and eventually in dying , they form waste - products - water and carbonic acid , ammonia and nitrates , and so on - which may be again utilised by plants . How often is the ...
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... substances , restoring to the soil what the plants , on which the animals fed , originally absorbed through their roots . Bacteria thus complete a wide circle ; they unite dead animal and living plant . For though many a plant thrives ...
... substances , restoring to the soil what the plants , on which the animals fed , originally absorbed through their roots . Bacteria thus complete a wide circle ; they unite dead animal and living plant . For though many a plant thrives ...
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... substance of the rocks there are numerous borers , like the Pholad bivalves , whose work of disintegration is individually slight , but in sum - total great . More conspicuous , however , is the work of the beavers , who , by cutting ...
... substance of the rocks there are numerous borers , like the Pholad bivalves , whose work of disintegration is individually slight , but in sum - total great . More conspicuous , however , is the work of the beavers , who , by cutting ...
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... substances , can survive desiccation for many years . Repeated experiments have shown that they can lie dormant for as long as , but not longer than , fourteen years ! and it is interesting to notice that the more prolonged the period ...
... substances , can survive desiccation for many years . Repeated experiments have shown that they can lie dormant for as long as , but not longer than , fourteen years ! and it is interesting to notice that the more prolonged the period ...
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action active adult Amphibians ants backboned become begin Biology birds bivalves body brain buds called carbonic carbonic acid Chambers's Encyclop changes characteristic ciliated colony colour complex corals crab creatures crustaceans cuttlefish Darwin division of labour earth Echinoderms egg-cell eggs embryo Encyclopædia Encyclopædia Britannica energy Erasmus Darwin evolution Evolution of Sex fact female fertilised fishes food-canal freshwater frog function grow habit Haeckel heredity higher animals hydroid individual influence Infusorians insects instincts jellyfish kinds lancelet larvæ less living matter Lond male mammals mates medusoids molluscs Natural History natural selection naturalists nervous nest notochord observed offspring organism origin ovum parasites parents plants Prof progress Protists protoplasm Protozoa realised recognise regard reproductive cells reptiles result sea-anemones seems shells simplest animals skin sometimes species spermatozoa spiders sponges strange structure substances suggest surroundings theory tion tissues units variations Vertebrate worms young Zoea zoology
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Página 339 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Página 174 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Página 297 - Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Página 44 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Página 262 - It scarcely breathes with its one lung (the other shrivelled and abortive) ; it is passive to the sun and shade, and is cold or hot like a stone ; yet " it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the zebra, outwrestle the athlete, and crush the tiger.
Página 289 - Fifthly, from their first rudiment, or primordium, to the termination of their lives, all animals undergo perpetual transformations, which are in part produced by their own exertions in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and pains, or of irritations, or of associations; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.
Página 33 - I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
Página 24 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
Página 23 - Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.
Página 289 - As air and water are supplied to animals in sufficient profusion, the three great objects of desire, which have changed the forms of many animals by their exertions to gratify them, are those of lust, hunger and security.