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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... existing information on the Distribution of Land Animals ; and to explain the more remarkable and interesting of the facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some ...
... existing information on the Distribution of Land Animals ; and to explain the more remarkable and interesting of the facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some ...
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... existing distribution of animals is the result and outcome of all preceding changes of the earth and of its inhabitants , we require as much knowledge as we can get of the animals of each country during past geological epochs , in order ...
... existing distribution of animals is the result and outcome of all preceding changes of the earth and of its inhabitants , we require as much knowledge as we can get of the animals of each country during past geological epochs , in order ...
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... existing tropical species ; and we must always bear in mind that similar changes may have acted upon other species which we now find restricted within narrow limits , but which may once have roamed over a wide and varied territory ...
... existing tropical species ; and we must always bear in mind that similar changes may have acted upon other species which we now find restricted within narrow limits , but which may once have roamed over a wide and varied territory ...
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... existing in this part of the Mediterranean while the remainder is of oceanic profundity , and by the large amount of identity in the species of land animals still inhabiting the opposite shores of the Mediterranean . The submersion of ...
... existing in this part of the Mediterranean while the remainder is of oceanic profundity , and by the large amount of identity in the species of land animals still inhabiting the opposite shores of the Mediterranean . The submersion of ...
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... existing weeks or months with- out food , and some are very tenacious of life . Many beetles will survive immersion for hours in strong spirit ; and water a few degrees below the boiling point will not always kill them . We can ...
... existing weeks or months with- out food , and some are very tenacious of life . Many beetles will survive immersion for hours in strong spirit ; and water a few degrees below the boiling point will not always kill them . We can ...
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