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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... developed in the race , by the circumstance that all who for want of such emotion did not join their fellows inevitably perished . The mode by which a passage originally overland has been converted into one over the sea offers no ...
... developed in the race , by the circumstance that all who for want of such emotion did not join their fellows inevitably perished . The mode by which a passage originally overland has been converted into one over the sea offers no ...
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... developed by Sir Charles Lyell , it ceases to be a matter of surprise that the tropics of Africa , Asia , and America should differ in their productions , but rather that they should have anything in common . Their similarity , not ...
... developed by Sir Charles Lyell , it ceases to be a matter of surprise that the tropics of Africa , Asia , and America should differ in their productions , but rather that they should have anything in common . Their similarity , not ...
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... that there has once been one ; and that the possession of the area by a distinct and well balanced set of organisms , which must have been slowly developed and adjusted , is the living barrier that now 54 [ PART I. DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS .
... that there has once been one ; and that the possession of the area by a distinct and well balanced set of organisms , which must have been slowly developed and adjusted , is the living barrier that now 54 [ PART I. DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS .
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... developed and adjusted , is the living barrier that now keeps out intruders . When it is ascertained that the chief differences which now obtain between two areas did not exist in Miocene or Pliocene times , the fact is one of great ...
... developed and adjusted , is the living barrier that now keeps out intruders . When it is ascertained that the chief differences which now obtain between two areas did not exist in Miocene or Pliocene times , the fact is one of great ...
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... developed class of organized beings , and that to which we ourselves belong . We should therefore construct our typical or standard Zoological Regions in the first place , from a consideration of the distribution of mammalia , only ...
... developed class of organized beings , and that to which we ourselves belong . We should therefore construct our typical or standard Zoological Regions in the first place , from a consideration of the distribution of mammalia , only ...
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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