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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... facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth , was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on the " Zoological ...
... facts , by means of established laws of physical and organic change . The main idea , which is here worked out in some detail for the whole earth , was stated sixteen years ago in the concluding pages of a paper on the " Zoological ...
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... facts ; and did not clearly separate groups of facts of unequal value , or those relating to groups of animals of unequal rank . As an example of what is meant , I may refer to Mr. Andrew Murray's large and valuable work on the ...
... facts ; and did not clearly separate groups of facts of unequal value , or those relating to groups of animals of unequal rank . As an example of what is meant , I may refer to Mr. Andrew Murray's large and valuable work on the ...
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... fact , a book of reference , in which the distri- bution of all the families and most of the genera of the higher animals , is given in systematic order . Part III . is treated somewhat more popularly ; and , although it is necessarily ...
... fact , a book of reference , in which the distri- bution of all the families and most of the genera of the higher animals , is given in systematic order . Part III . is treated somewhat more popularly ; and , although it is necessarily ...
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... fact ; as well as copies of any of their papers or essays , and especially of any lists , catalogues , and monographs , containing information on the classification or distribution of living or extinct animals . To the many friends who ...
... fact ; as well as copies of any of their papers or essays , and especially of any lists , catalogues , and monographs , containing information on the classification or distribution of living or extinct animals . To the many friends who ...
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... Russel Wallace. THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS . PART I. THE PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL PHENOMENA OF DISTRIBUTION . IP CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . IT is a fact within the THE PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL PHENOMENA OF DISTRIBUTION.
... Russel Wallace. THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS . PART I. THE PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL PHENOMENA OF DISTRIBUTION . IP CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . IT is a fact within the THE PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL PHENOMENA OF DISTRIBUTION.
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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 hy¿nas 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