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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... isolation by the most effectual and most permanent barriers . That ocean which has remained broadest and deepest from the most remote geological epoch will separate countries the productions of which most widely and CHAP . I. ] 7 ...
... isolation by the most effectual and most permanent barriers . That ocean which has remained broadest and deepest from the most remote geological epoch will separate countries the productions of which most widely and CHAP . I. ] 7 ...
Page 36
... isolated from the rest than they are at present ; just as South America would be if North America were submerged , or as Australia would become if the Malay Archipelago were to sink beneath the ocean . It is also very important to bear ...
... isolated from the rest than they are at present ; just as South America would be if North America were submerged , or as Australia would become if the Malay Archipelago were to sink beneath the ocean . It is also very important to bear ...
Page 37
... 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 with so much irregularity ...
... 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 with so much irregularity ...
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... isolated land - masses ancient forms of life have been preserved , which , in the more extensive and more varied continents have long given way to higher types . How complex then must have been the actions and reactions such a state of ...
... isolated land - masses ancient forms of life have been preserved , which , in the more extensive and more varied continents have long given way to higher types . How complex then must have been the actions and reactions such a state of ...
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... isolated district , one of the great zoological regions , comparable to South America , Australia , or Ethiopia ... isolated forms occurred with it , no one would propose that these caverns or the district containing them , should form ...
... isolated district , one of the great zoological regions , comparable to South America , Australia , or Ethiopia ... isolated forms occurred with it , no one would propose that these caverns or the district containing them , should form ...
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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