the South American continent, its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe, and the persistence through countless ages of all the conditions requisite for the development and increase of varied forms of animal life. THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. - Page 9by ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876Full view - About this book
| 1882 - 876 lehte
...detail this "single family of birds, without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its long isolation from...development and increase of varied forms of animal life." The curassows are distant relatives of the mound-birds of Australia; and the tinamous possess affinities... | |
| 1882 - 968 lehte
...in detail this single family of birds, without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its long isolation from...development and increase of varied forms of animal life.” The curassows are distant relatives of the mound-birds of Australia; and the tinamous possess affinities... | |
| Andrew Wilson - 1887 - 382 lehte
...in detail this single family of birds, without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its long isolation from...development and increase of varied forms of animal life." The curassows are distant relatives of the mound-birds of Australia, and the tinamous possess affinities... | |
| Andrew Wilson - 1898 - 378 lehte
...in detail this single family of birds, without being profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its long isolation from...development and increase of varied forms of animal life." The curassows are distant relatives of the mound-birds of Australia, and the tinamous possess affinities... | |
| Robert Francis Scharff - 1911 - 584 lehte
...study in detail this single family of birds without being profoundly impressed by the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its long isolation from...development and increase of varied forms of animal life. The chatterers(Cotingidae) which have already been alluded to as comprising some of the most beautiful... | |
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