Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of LifeD. Appleton, 1907 - 392 pagini |
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Pagina 4
... say , then , that homology is real , and whatever power or cause has acted on fishes to provide them with pectoral fins has given to birds wings , to the dog fore legs , and to me and my neighbour arms . The arms are appendages more ...
... say , then , that homology is real , and whatever power or cause has acted on fishes to provide them with pectoral fins has given to birds wings , to the dog fore legs , and to me and my neighbour arms . The arms are appendages more ...
Pagina 5
... say as a matter of fact that life exists on the earth , which was once lifeless . How the first organism came to be we can not even guess . By what clashing of elements the vital spark came forth , and whether like causes can or do ...
... say as a matter of fact that life exists on the earth , which was once lifeless . How the first organism came to be we can not even guess . By what clashing of elements the vital spark came forth , and whether like causes can or do ...
Pagina 9
... say if we choose that the " thought of God " is not " the unchang- ing species , " but the law under which species are modi- fied and changed . Nature is made up of changing beings produced and acted upon by unchanging laws . It is the ...
... say if we choose that the " thought of God " is not " the unchang- ing species , " but the law under which species are modi- fied and changed . Nature is made up of changing beings produced and acted upon by unchanging laws . It is the ...
Pagina 15
... say a very foolish one . I was so struck with the distribution of the Galapagos organ- isms and with the character of the American fossil mam- mifers that I determined to collect blindly every sort of fact which could bear in any way on ...
... say a very foolish one . I was so struck with the distribution of the Galapagos organ- isms and with the character of the American fossil mam- mifers that I determined to collect blindly every sort of fact which could bear in any way on ...
Pagina 16
... says Huxley , " is singularly ob- durate to honeyed words . Only those who understand the ways of things , and can silently and effectively use them , get much good out of her . " The Origin of Species . Let me speak of certain 16 FOOT ...
... says Huxley , " is singularly ob- durate to honeyed words . Only those who understand the ways of things , and can silently and effectively use them , get much good out of her . " The Origin of Species . Let me speak of certain 16 FOOT ...
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Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life David Starr Jordan Vizualizare completă - 1898 |
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
Pasaje populare
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.