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. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 |
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... allied to European forms , so that their progenitors must , probably , have reached the islands before the Atlantic was a commercial highway . Barriers to the Dispersal of Birds . - We have seen that , as a rule , wide oceans are an ...
... allied to European forms , so that their progenitors must , probably , have reached the islands before the Atlantic was a commercial highway . Barriers to the Dispersal of Birds . - We have seen that , as a rule , wide oceans are an ...
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... allied forms . But the dispersal of insects requires to be looked at from another point of view . They are , of all animals , perhaps the most wonderfully adapted for special conditions ; and are so often . fitted to fill one place in ...
... allied forms . But the dispersal of insects requires to be looked at from another point of view . They are , of all animals , perhaps the most wonderfully adapted for special conditions ; and are so often . fitted to fill one place in ...
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... allied ; the West Indian fossil shells and corals of the Miocene period , however , are found to be largely identical with those of the Pacific coast . The fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific shores of America are as a rule very distinct ...
... allied ; the West Indian fossil shells and corals of the Miocene period , however , are found to be largely identical with those of the Pacific coast . The fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific shores of America are as a rule very distinct ...
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... allied to the elephant , rhinoceros , and tapir . At the same time , or perhaps somewhat earlier , a temperate climate extended into the arctic regions , and allowed a magnificent vegetation of shrubs and forest trees , some of them ...
... allied to the elephant , rhinoceros , and tapir . At the same time , or perhaps somewhat earlier , a temperate climate extended into the arctic regions , and allowed a magnificent vegetation of shrubs and forest trees , some of them ...
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... allied to those found at lower elevations . On the Alps or Pyrenees at this elevation , there would be a rich flora comprising hundreds of arctic plants ; and the absence of anything corresponding to them in this case , in which their ...
... allied to those found at lower elevations . On the Alps or Pyrenees at this elevation , there would be a rich flora comprising hundreds of arctic plants ; and the absence of anything corresponding to them in this case , in which their ...
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic genus Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions