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. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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... changes in physical geography , climate , and vegetation , on the distribution of ani- mals ; but the indirect effects of such changes are probably of quite equal , if not of greater importance . Every change becomes the centre of an ...
... changes in physical geography , climate , and vegetation , on the distribution of ani- mals ; but the indirect effects of such changes are probably of quite equal , if not of greater importance . Every change becomes the centre of an ...
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... Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. and New Worlds . - Leaving the more special applications of palæontological evidence to be made after discussing the relations of the existing fauna of the several regions , we ...
... Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. and New Worlds . - Leaving the more special applications of palæontological evidence to be made after discussing the relations of the existing fauna of the several regions , we ...
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... Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. time since these changes took place is , geologically , minute . The time of the whole of the Post - Pliocene period , as measured by the amount of physical and general organic change ...
... Changes of the Earth's Surface Alfred Russel Wallace. time since these changes took place is , geologically , minute . The time of the whole of the Post - Pliocene period , as measured by the amount of physical and general organic change ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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