On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower AnimalsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 135 pages |
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... greater importance than it deserves as a physiological or philosophical question . The varying intensity of life in different species , and the average mortality of a species , are more clearly influential quantities in nature than the ...
... greater importance than it deserves as a physiological or philosophical question . The varying intensity of life in different species , and the average mortality of a species , are more clearly influential quantities in nature than the ...
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... greater or less consistence of its organs , on the rapidity or the slowness of its con- sumption , and on the perfection or imperfection of regeneration.'1 The only criticisms on these views which it is at present useful to make , is ...
... greater or less consistence of its organs , on the rapidity or the slowness of its con- sumption , and on the perfection or imperfection of regeneration.'1 The only criticisms on these views which it is at present useful to make , is ...
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... in a particular condition . It could not be maintained that one 1 Quoted by M. Flourens , loc . cit . 2 6 Method . Medend . ' Lib . xi . D organism might possess a greater store of vital force or AN ESSAY ON LONGEVITY . 33.
... in a particular condition . It could not be maintained that one 1 Quoted by M. Flourens , loc . cit . 2 6 Method . Medend . ' Lib . xi . D organism might possess a greater store of vital force or AN ESSAY ON LONGEVITY . 33.
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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. organism might possess a greater store of vital force or life - power than another , without there being some material representative of that force . Hence we must - whether taking force or matter as our text ...
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. organism might possess a greater store of vital force or life - power than another , without there being some material representative of that force . Hence we must - whether taking force or matter as our text ...
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... greater than the contemporaneous power of assimi- lation can supply ; and it seems not impossible that this germinal matter may be the store from which Professor Parkes supposed a muscle to draw a supply of nitrogenous aliment in the ...
... greater than the contemporaneous power of assimi- lation can supply ; and it seems not impossible that this germinal matter may be the store from which Professor Parkes supposed a muscle to draw a supply of nitrogenous aliment in the ...
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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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