A Manual of Anthropology, Or Science of Man Based on Modern Research by Charles BrayLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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... higher than any at present existing , have been raised , continents and islands everywhere have emerged to be again submerged ; and to come as near home as possible , it is Sir Charles Lyell's opinion that at one stage of the glacial ...
... higher than any at present existing , have been raised , continents and islands everywhere have emerged to be again submerged ; and to come as near home as possible , it is Sir Charles Lyell's opinion that at one stage of the glacial ...
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... higher living beings which inhabit the land put together . " * The earliest inhabitants of the earth appear to have lived in shells , and to have carried their houses about with them . A cubic inch of chalk contains * " On the Physical ...
... higher living beings which inhabit the land put together . " * The earliest inhabitants of the earth appear to have lived in shells , and to have carried their houses about with them . A cubic inch of chalk contains * " On the Physical ...
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... higher animals . Still , in calculating " the greatest happiness of the greatest number , " on utilitarian principles , it will be scarcely fair to allow each to count as one . Professor Huxley tells us " the microscopic fungus multi ...
... higher animals . Still , in calculating " the greatest happiness of the greatest number , " on utilitarian principles , it will be scarcely fair to allow each to count as one . Professor Huxley tells us " the microscopic fungus multi ...
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... higher up in the scale many fishes eject a million spawn in a single year ; and if justice , in the human sense , were done to each individual , whether of animalcule or fish , they would soon have the world to them- selves . Higher ...
... higher up in the scale many fishes eject a million spawn in a single year ; and if justice , in the human sense , were done to each individual , whether of animalcule or fish , they would soon have the world to them- selves . Higher ...
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... higher animals was of the same species as any of those now in existence . * The population of the earth's surface was at first very similar in all parts , and only from the middle of the Tertiary epoch onwards began to show a distinct ...
... higher animals was of the same species as any of those now in existence . * The population of the earth's surface was at first very similar in all parts , and only from the middle of the Tertiary epoch onwards began to show a distinct ...
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