My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... NATURAL SELECTION AND TROPICAL NATURE , " ETC. WITH FACSIMILE letters , ILLUSTRATIONS AND PORTRAITS TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I LONDON : CHAPMAN & HALL , LD . PREFACE THE present volumes would not have been written had 1905 MY LIFE.
... NATURAL SELECTION AND TROPICAL NATURE , " ETC. WITH FACSIMILE letters , ILLUSTRATIONS AND PORTRAITS TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I LONDON : CHAPMAN & HALL , LD . PREFACE THE present volumes would not have been written had 1905 MY LIFE.
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... nature , and later on finding in him a companion without whom I might never have ventured on my journey to the Amazon . The ... natural selection and obtained full credit for its independent discovery . My year spent at Leicester must ...
... nature , and later on finding in him a companion without whom I might never have ventured on my journey to the Amazon . The ... natural selection and obtained full credit for its independent discovery . My year spent at Leicester must ...
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... Natural History , in which it appeared in the following September ( 1855 ) . Its title was " On the Law which has ... Selection and Tropical Nature . " - CHAPTER XXII CELEBES , THE MOLUCCAS , NEW GUINEA , XXI ] 355 THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.
... Natural History , in which it appeared in the following September ( 1855 ) . Its title was " On the Law which has ... Selection and Tropical Nature . " - CHAPTER XXII CELEBES , THE MOLUCCAS , NEW GUINEA , XXI ] 355 THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.
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... Natural Selection , " I might have spent the best years of my life in this comparatively profitless work . But the new ideas swept all this away . I have for the most part left others to describe my discoveries , and have devoted myself ...
... Natural Selection , " I might have spent the best years of my life in this comparatively profitless work . But the new ideas swept all this away . I have for the most part left others to describe my discoveries , and have devoted myself ...
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... Natural Selection and Tropical Nature , " and in reading it now it must be remembered that it was but a hasty first ... Natural Selections are due to ignorance of this fact , and to the erroneous assumption that what are called ...
... Natural Selection and Tropical Nature , " and in reading it now it must be remembered that it was but a hasty first ... Natural Selections are due to ignorance of this fact , and to the erroneous assumption that what are called ...
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