A New Theory of Organic EvolutionW. Blackwood and Sons, 1903 - 174 páginas |
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... plants and animals , whose organisation , as new types success- ively appeared , became , as a general rule , more and more highly specialised , until at last Man appeared upon the scene . Embryology seems to tell a similar story . The ...
... plants and animals , whose organisation , as new types success- ively appeared , became , as a general rule , more and more highly specialised , until at last Man appeared upon the scene . Embryology seems to tell a similar story . The ...
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... plants was generally accepted and stoutly upheld by dogmatic theology ; but in 1859 Darwin made public his theory of the evolution of species from the first simple forms of life by natural causes , and this theory , after much ...
... plants was generally accepted and stoutly upheld by dogmatic theology ; but in 1859 Darwin made public his theory of the evolution of species from the first simple forms of life by natural causes , and this theory , after much ...
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... plants were descended from a few progenitors ( whose existence he assumed ) , modified by second- ary causes , through a long course of descent , and by " spontaneous variation . ” To facilitate comparison of the two theories we propose ...
... plants were descended from a few progenitors ( whose existence he assumed ) , modified by second- ary causes , through a long course of descent , and by " spontaneous variation . ” To facilitate comparison of the two theories we propose ...
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... plants and animals that suc- cessively appeared on the earth . We know nothing in the abstract of the force called gravitation , but we conclude from its phenomena that there is a specific force that operates according to certain un ...
... plants and animals that suc- cessively appeared on the earth . We know nothing in the abstract of the force called gravitation , but we conclude from its phenomena that there is a specific force that operates according to certain un ...
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... plants . Every organism is evolved by a General life - force in combination with a Specific life- force . The General life - force is common to all life , but the Specific life - force is peculiar to each race , and builds up its ...
... plants . Every organism is evolved by a General life - force in combination with a Specific life- force . The General life - force is common to all life , but the Specific life - force is peculiar to each race , and builds up its ...
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