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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Page 7
... evidence . This modification of animal forms took place very slowly , so that the historical period of three or four thousand years has hardly produced any perceptible change in a single species . Even the time since the last glacial ...
... evidence . This modification of animal forms took place very slowly , so that the historical period of three or four thousand years has hardly produced any perceptible change in a single species . Even the time since the last glacial ...
Page 8
... evidence can , which are the oldest and most permanent features of the earth's surface , and which the newest . It may indicate the existence of islands or conti- nents now sunk beneath the ocean , and which have left no record of their ...
... evidence can , which are the oldest and most permanent features of the earth's surface , and which the newest . It may indicate the existence of islands or conti- nents now sunk beneath the ocean , and which have left no record of their ...
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... evidence to show how long they could live at sea or how many miles they could traverse . Squirrels , rats , and lemmings often migrate from northern countries in bands of thousands and hundreds of thousands , and pass over rivers ...
... evidence to show how long they could live at sea or how many miles they could traverse . Squirrels , rats , and lemmings often migrate from northern countries in bands of thousands and hundreds of thousands , and pass over rivers ...
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... evidence of permanence possessed by each of these features , in order that we may give due weight to the various causes that have led to the existing facts of animal distribution . Land and Water . - The well - known fact that nearly ...
... evidence of permanence possessed by each of these features , in order that we may give due weight to the various causes that have led to the existing facts of animal distribution . Land and Water . - The well - known fact that nearly ...
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... evidence of ice - action , and never south of the 40th parallel of latitude , to which in the northern hemisphere signs of ice - action extend . In the southern hemisphere , in Patagonia and in New Zealand , exactly similar phenomena ...
... evidence of ice - action , and never south of the 40th parallel of latitude , to which in the northern hemisphere signs of ice - action extend . In the southern hemisphere , in Patagonia and in New Zealand , exactly similar phenomena ...
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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