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 - 503 pages |
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... animals of adjacent districts being closely related to preceding geological changes . By the collection of such Ominute facts , alone , can we hope to fill up a great gap in the C past history of the earth as revealed by geology ,
... animals of adjacent districts being closely related to preceding geological changes . By the collection of such Ominute facts , alone , can we hope to fill up a great gap in the C past history of the earth as revealed by geology ,
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... closely the distribution of animals in any extensive region , we find that different , though closely allied species , are often found on the opposite sides of any considerable barrier to their migration . Thus , on the two sides of the ...
... closely the distribution of animals in any extensive region , we find that different , though closely allied species , are often found on the opposite sides of any considerable barrier to their migration . Thus , on the two sides of the ...
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... closely 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 ...
... closely 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 ...
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... closely allied plant being abundant there . Other insects require succulent vegetable food all the year round , and are therefore confined to tropical regions ; some can live only in deserts , others in forests ; some are de- pendent on ...
... closely allied plant being abundant there . Other insects require succulent vegetable food all the year round , and are therefore confined to tropical regions ; some can live only in deserts , others in forests ; some are de- pendent on ...
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... closely allied to E. antiquus and two smaller ones not exceeding five feet high when adult . These facts clearly indicate , that when North Africa was separated by a broad arm of the sea from the rest of the continent , it was probably ...
... closely allied to E. antiquus and two smaller ones not exceeding five feet high when adult . These facts clearly indicate , that when North Africa was separated by a broad arm of the sea from the rest of the continent , it was probably ...
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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