The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 40
... recent change of great importance which can be adduced to illustrate our present subject , is that which has taken place between North and South America . The living marine shells of the opposite coasts of the isthmus of Panama , as ...
... recent change of great importance which can be adduced to illustrate our present subject , is that which has taken place between North and South America . The living marine shells of the opposite coasts of the isthmus of Panama , as ...
Page 149
... recent and almost universal change that has taken place in the character of the fauna , over all the areas we have been considering ; a change which seems to be altogether unprecedented in the past history of the same countries as ...
... recent and almost universal change that has taken place in the character of the fauna , over all the areas we have been considering ; a change which seems to be altogether unprecedented in the past history of the same countries as ...
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... recent geological date , and there are indications that some of them may have been in existence less than a century ago , and were really exter- minated by man . Remains have been found ( of apparently the same recent date ) of species ...
... recent geological date , and there are indications that some of them may have been in existence less than a century ago , and were really exter- minated by man . Remains have been found ( of apparently the same recent date ) of species ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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