 In the one, evolution has had a fair chance; in the other it has had countless difficulties thrown in its way. The equatorial regions are then, as regards their past and present life history, a more ancient world than that represented by the temperate...  Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 107by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1878 - 916 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are then, as regards their past and present life history, a more ancient world than that represented by the Temperate Zones,...infinitely varied and beautiful forms — those wonderful eccentricities of structure, of function, and of instinct — that rich variety of color, and that... | |
 | 1878 - 882 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are then, as regards their past and present life history, a more ancient world than that represented by the Temperate Zones,...resulted in those infinitely varied and beautiful forms—those wonderful eccentricities of structure, of function, and of instinct—that rich variety... | |
 | 1879 - 972 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are, then, as regards their past and present life history, a more ancient world than that represented by the temperate zones...infinitely varied and beautiful forms, those wonderful eccentricities of structure, of function, and of instinct, that rich variety of color, and that nicely... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are then, as regards their past and present life-history, a more ancient world than that represented by the temperate zones,...infinitely varied and beautiful forms — those wonderful eccentricities of structure, of function, and of instinct — that rich variety of colour, and that... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are then, as regards their past and present life-history, a more ancient world than that represented by the temperate zones a world in which the laws which have governed the progress^ ive development of life have operated with comparatively little check for countless ages,... | |
 | Laurence Martin Cook, Robert S. Callow - 1999 - 310 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are then, as regards their past and present life history, a more ancient world than that represented by the temperate zones,...infinitely varied and beautiful forms - those wonderful eccentricities of structure, of function, and of instinct that rich variety of colour, and that nicely... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1879 - 976 lehte
...way. The equatorial regions are, then, as regards their past and present life history, a more ancient world than that represented by the temperate zones...infinitely varied and beautiful forms, those wonderful eccentricities of structure, of function, and of instinct, that rich variety of color, and that nicely... | |
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