On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower AnimalsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 135 pages |
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... creature is born , and care- fully substituting others , may cause it to live much longer than it could possibly do if left to its natural conditions . Thus man may take a bird , and by providing it with food , and protecting it from ...
... creature is born , and care- fully substituting others , may cause it to live much longer than it could possibly do if left to its natural conditions . Thus man may take a bird , and by providing it with food , and protecting it from ...
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... creature which a year ago was one foot high , has now become two feet high , what are the necessary concomitant changes that have taken place in it ? It is eight times as heavy , but the muscles and bones have increased their power only ...
... creature which a year ago was one foot high , has now become two feet high , what are the necessary concomitant changes that have taken place in it ? It is eight times as heavy , but the muscles and bones have increased their power only ...
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... creatures , the information which may be had is but slender , observation is negligent , and tradition fabu- lous . In tame creatures their degenerate life cor- rupteth them , in wild creatures their exposing to all weathers often ...
... creatures , the information which may be had is but slender , observation is negligent , and tradition fabu- lous . In tame creatures their degenerate life cor- rupteth them , in wild creatures their exposing to all weathers often ...
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... creatures ; his age hath sometimes reached to two hundred years . 3. Lions are accounted long livers , because many ... creature , and sinewy ; so that he doth ordinarily attain to fifty , and sometimes to a hundred years . 7. The horse ...
... creatures ; his age hath sometimes reached to two hundred years . 3. Lions are accounted long livers , because many ... creature , and sinewy ; so that he doth ordinarily attain to fifty , and sometimes to a hundred years . 7. The horse ...
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... creature dull , fleshy , and soon fatted , and living only upon herby sub- tances , without grain . II . The sheep seldom lives to ten years , though he be a creature of a moderate size , and excellently clad ; and , that which may seem ...
... creature dull , fleshy , and soon fatted , and living only upon herby sub- tances , without grain . II . The sheep seldom lives to ten years , though he be a creature of a moderate size , and excellently clad ; and , that which may seem ...
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absolute potential longevity accessibility of food Actinozoa amongst animals Annelids appears Aristotle asexual average longevity Bacon birds Buffon bulk cæteris paribus causes character civilized comparative longevity creature Crown 8vo Crustacea Darwin death diminished disease duration Edition England English enquiry essay Extra fcap facts Farr favours Longevity Fcap fertility fish Flourens forms Fuegian gemmules Genesis germinal matter gevity greater Grindon growth hence Herbert Spencer hereditary high evolution high individuation Hufeland Hydrozoa increased influence insects known length less life-tables limit living matter long livers long-lived longer lived males mammals ments Mollusca mortality natural decay normal potential longevity nutriment observed old age organisms ovum period personal expenditure plants POEMS potential longevity Probable after-lifetime Professor PROTOPHYTA Protozoa quantity races racterizes regard relation reproduction Reptiles Rotifer Rotifera seen sexual shew Spencer statements statistics structure supposed term terrestrial Terrestrial animals tertiary aggregation tion various Vertebrata whilst writer young
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