is undoubtedly a legitimate and highly probable supposition, and it is an example of the way in which a study of the geographical distribution of animals may enable us to reconstruct the geography of a bygone age. ... It... THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS - Page 76by ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876Full view - About this book
| W. Scott-Elliot - 1904 - 58 lehte
...animals of the Lemuroid type were developed. " This," writes AR Wallace, " is undoubtedly a legitinaate and highly probable supposition, and it is an example...enable us to reconstruct the geography of a bygone age. \ . . •Einst Haeckel's " Hist, of .Creation," 2nd ed., 1876, Vol. i., pp. 360-62. It [this continent]... | |
| 1908 - 804 lehte
...have been the progeny of such a degrading alliance? The eminent naturalist, Mr. AK Wallace, says : ''This is undoubtedly a legitimate and highly probable...us to reconstruct the geography of a by-gone age." It is quite possible that this continent was the cradle of the human race, although evidence points... | |
| 1912 - 992 lehte
...once expressed the opinion that it was undoubtedly a legitimate and highly probable supposition, and an example of the way in which a study of the geographical...enable us to reconstruct the geography of a bygone age. In his "Island Life" he dissents from the view he formerly held, though Blanford5 never rejected the... | |
| W. Scott-Elliot - 1925 - 198 lehte
...probably on this continent that animals of the Lemuroid type were developed. "This," writes AR Wallace, "is undoubtedly a legitimate and highly probable supposition,...enable us to reconstruct the geography of a bygone age. ... It [this continent] represents what was probably a primary zoological region in some past geological... | |
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