Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of LifeD. Appleton, 1907 - 392 pagini |
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... ages has become segregated and set off from its neigh- bours , is called in biology a species . The number of these species is great beyond any ordinary conception . I have an old book in my library , the tenth edition of the Systema ...
... ages has become segregated and set off from its neigh- bours , is called in biology a species . The number of these species is great beyond any ordinary conception . I have an old book in my library , the tenth edition of the Systema ...
Pagina 6
... ages that makes up geological time , the thought that " time is as long as space is wide , " had scarcely entered the minds even of the boldest thinkers of that day . The answer of Linnæus . Being . " But In this condition of knowledge ...
... ages that makes up geological time , the thought that " time is as long as space is wide , " had scarcely entered the minds even of the boldest thinkers of that day . The answer of Linnæus . Being . " But In this condition of knowledge ...
Pagina 22
... to die except of old age , it would take but twenty years to give one sparrow to every square inch in the State of Indiana . But such The equilibrium of Nature . increase is actually impossible ; 22 FOOT - NOTES TO EVOLUTION .
... to die except of old age , it would take but twenty years to give one sparrow to every square inch in the State of Indiana . But such The equilibrium of Nature . increase is actually impossible ; 22 FOOT - NOTES TO EVOLUTION .
Pagina 24
... snow , the less likely it is to fall a prey to carnivorous animals or birds . And so for ages in the northern winter the action of competition in Nature , of " natural selection , " has saved 24 FOOT - NOTES TO EVOLUTION .
... snow , the less likely it is to fall a prey to carnivorous animals or birds . And so for ages in the northern winter the action of competition in Nature , of " natural selection , " has saved 24 FOOT - NOTES TO EVOLUTION .
Pagina 28
... age is useful to the species . Those spe- cies in which old age brings decay and in which the in- dividuals perish naturally when they cease to be self - de- pendent are then preserved in the struggle for existence . Altruism and the ...
... age is useful to the species . Those spe- cies in which old age brings decay and in which the in- dividuals perish naturally when they cease to be self - de- pendent are then preserved in the struggle for existence . Altruism and the ...
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
acquired characters action adaptation adult altruism ammonites ancestors animals become birds blood body Brachiopoda causes centrosome chromatin chromosomes colony competition concessions conjugation creatures Crustacea cytoplasm Darwin degeneration degree descendants division egg cell elements embryo environment evidence extrinsic fact factors fauna fish fittest force forms function genera germ cell germinal growth hereditary heredity homology human increase individual influence inheritance knowledge larvæ larval less living mammals ment monism mother natural selection naturalists never nucleus ontogeny organic evolution paleontologist Pandorina parent peculiarities phenomena philosophy phylogeny plants possible produced progress protaspis protoconch protoplasm protozoa rabbit race recognised relations reproductive Richard Roe Sacculina says sense shore larks shown simple somatic species sperm stages structure struggle for existence survival tetrads theory things tion tissues trilobites truth ture variation vertebræ Weismann whorl words zygote
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Pagina 29 - 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.
Pagina 29 - 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.
Pagina 1 - It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint for marriage.
Pagina xvii - Two canine animals, in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent on the moisture.
Pagina 226 - ... 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.
Pagina 226 - 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.
Pagina 1 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Pagina 66 - It is good to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.
Pagina 293 - Animal Mechanism : a Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion. By Professor EJ Marey. With 117 Illustrations. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 5*.
Pagina 165 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.