 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 586 lehte
...the caves and in the stratified tertiary deposits of the Pampas ; — yet all have since passed away. It is clear, therefore, that we are now in an altogether...zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared ; and it is, no doubt, a much better world... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 602 lehte
...the caves and in the stratified tertiary deposits of the Pampas ; — yet all have since passed away. It is clear, therefore, that we are now in an altogether...zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared ; and it is, no doubt, a much better world... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1876 - 612 lehte
...America al since Post- Pliocene times, " it is clear," our author t ' Continued from p. 168. us, " that we are now in an altogether exceptional period of the earth's history," some idea of which it is very necessary to realise. " We live in an impoverished world, from •which... | |
 | 1877 - 974 lehte
...represent the normal state of things. Species and genera have not at all times become so rapidly extinct. It is clear, therefore, that we are now in an altogether...zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest and fiercest and strangest forms have recently disappeared ; and it is, no doubt, a much better world... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - 1895 - 638 lehte
...pp. Two other somewhat exceptional causes remain to be indicated. Mr. Wallace says : — "It is clear that we are now in an altogether exceptional period...zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest and fiercest and strangest forms have recently disappeared ; and it is no doubt a much better world... | |
 | Royal Dublin Society - 1880 - 710 lehte
...record of the operations which she had been carrying on on a grander scale throughout the world. * " We live in a Zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest and fiercest and strangest forms have disappeared ; yet it is a marvellous fact, and one that has hardly... | |
 | Royal Dublin Society - 1880 - 712 lehte
...record of the operations which she had been carrying on on a grander scale throughout the world. • "We live in a Zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest and fiercest ind strangest forms have disappeared ; yet it is a marvellous fact, and one that has hardly... | |
 | 1978 - 552 lehte
...50 years ago, but the ivory harvest still goes on. AR Wallace, Darwin's contemporary, wrote in 1876: "We live in a zoologically impoverished world from which all the hugest, fiercest, and strongest forms have recently disappeared." Man is implicated in the "great die-off"... | |
 | Gary G. Gray - 1995 - 280 lehte
...species of large animals at the end of the Ice Age. Over a century ago Alfred Russel Wallace wrote: "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared . . . yet it is surely a marvelous fact,... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 1996 - 556 lehte
...about by climatic stress. Wallace gave eloquent support to the theory of glacial extinctions in 1876: It is clear, therefore, that we are now in an altogether...zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strongest forms have recently disappeared; and it is, no doubt, a much better world... | |
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We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared ; and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now they have gone. 
