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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... 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 epoch , which on the very lowest estimate ...
... 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 epoch , which on the very lowest estimate ...
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... forms to areas not at present isolated , and on the other hand , the occurrence of allied forms in lands situated on opposite shores of the great oceans . Continental Areas . - Although the dry land of the earth's surface is distributed ...
... forms to areas not at present isolated , and on the other hand , the occurrence of allied forms in lands situated on opposite shores of the great oceans . Continental Areas . - Although the dry land of the earth's surface is distributed ...
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... form of huge mountainous moraines , in some cases more than a thousand feet high . In Canada and New Hampshire the marks of ... forms implying a climate very little different from the CHAP . III . ] CONDITIONS AFFECTING DISTRIBUTION . 41.
... form of huge mountainous moraines , in some cases more than a thousand feet high . In Canada and New Hampshire the marks of ... forms implying a climate very little different from the CHAP . III . ] CONDITIONS AFFECTING DISTRIBUTION . 41.
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... form a balanced organic whole , the destruction of the barrier may lead to a very partial intermingling of the peculiar forms of the two regions . Each will have become modified in special ways adapted to the organic and physical ...
... form a balanced organic whole , the destruction of the barrier may lead to a very partial intermingling of the peculiar forms of the two regions . Each will have become modified in special ways adapted to the organic and physical ...
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... forms . 3. If such a condition of the earth as here supposed con- tinued for very long periods , we may conceive that the action and reaction of the various organisms on each other , combined with the influence of very slowly changing ...
... forms . 3. If such a condition of the earth as here supposed con- tinued for very long periods , we may conceive that the action and reaction of the various organisms on each other , combined with the influence of very slowly changing ...
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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