 Such phenomena as are exhibited by the Galapagos Islands, which contain little groups of plants and animals peculiar to themselves, but most nearly allied to those of South America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos...  Annals & Magazine of Natural History - Page 1881855Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 414 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity, and have probably never been...die out, and the modified prototypes only remain. In the same way we can account for the separate islands having each their peculiar species, either... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity, and have probably never been...die out, and the modified prototypes only remain. In the same way we can account for the separate islands having each their peculiar species, either... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity, and have probably never been...die out, and the modified prototypes only remain. In the same way we can account for the separate islands having each their peculiar species, either... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 564 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity and have probably never been...connected with the continent than they are at present." He then proceeds at some length to explain how the Galapagos must have been at first "peopled ... by... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 530 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity and have probably never been...connected with the continent than they are at present." He then proceeds at some length to explain how the Galapagos must have been at first "peopled ... by... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 352 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos arc a volcanic group of high antiquity and have probably never been more closely connected with the coutineut than they are at present. He then proceeds at some length to explain how the 'riilapago«... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 2003 - 464 lehte
...America, have not hitherto received any, even a conjectural explanation. The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity, and have probably never been...die out, and the modified prototypes only remain. In the same way we can account for the separate islands having each their peculiar species, either... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 lehte
...plants and animals peculiar to themselves, but most nearly allied to those of South America. . . . They must have been first peopled, like other newly-formed...die out, and the modified prototypes only remain. In the same way we can account for the separate islands having each their peculiar species, either... | |
 | Martin Fichman - 2010 - 393 lehte
...thinking mind—why are these things so?" And the solution was clear: The Galapagos are a volcanic group of high antiquity, and have probably never been...present. They must have been first peopled, like other newly formed islands, by the action of winds and currents, and at a period sufficiently remote to have... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1885 - 808 lehte
...the Earth." He attributed the characters of the plants and animals of the Galapagos to their having been " first peopled, like other newly-formed " islands, by the action of winds and currents, at a period sufficiently remote to have had the original species die out, and the modified prototypes... | |
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