Quarterly Journal of Science: 1877, 14. köideJohn Churchill and Sons, 1877 |
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... opposed to that belief , however false and monstrous it may be . The tradition of the fixity of species has become so 26 [ January , Evolution by Expansion . EVOLUTION BY EXPANSION, VERSUS EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION By J Huddart.
... opposed to that belief , however false and monstrous it may be . The tradition of the fixity of species has become so 26 [ January , Evolution by Expansion . EVOLUTION BY EXPANSION, VERSUS EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION By J Huddart.
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... species , but allows that sexual selection , climate , geographical distribution , and other minor influences have had their share in the work . The striking similarity in appearance , habits , and struc- ture presented by many species ...
... species , but allows that sexual selection , climate , geographical distribution , and other minor influences have had their share in the work . The striking similarity in appearance , habits , and struc- ture presented by many species ...
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... species by gradual development . It has been so ably defended by Darwin , in his " Origin of Species , " as to leave no new argument to be urged in its favour . The greatest difficulty which it presents , and perhaps the only one of any ...
... species by gradual development . It has been so ably defended by Darwin , in his " Origin of Species , " as to leave no new argument to be urged in its favour . The greatest difficulty which it presents , and perhaps the only one of any ...
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... species preserve their type no matter what be their condi- tions of existence . Conformity to type is thus the para- mount law in the formation of species ; adaptation to the conditions of existence a secondary law . Darwin considers ...
... species preserve their type no matter what be their condi- tions of existence . Conformity to type is thus the para- mount law in the formation of species ; adaptation to the conditions of existence a secondary law . Darwin considers ...
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... species of flat - fish , which swim with the median plane horizontal , instead of vertical as in other fishes , and which , while maintaining their type , have heads actually distorted in a very singular manner to suit their habits ...
... species of flat - fish , which swim with the median plane horizontal , instead of vertical as in other fishes , and which , while maintaining their type , have heads actually distorted in a very singular manner to suit their habits ...
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Page 511 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 37 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Page 140 - Deas. — THE RIVER CLYDE. An Historical Description of the Rise and Progress of the Harbour of Glasgow, and of the Improvement of the River from Glasgow to Port Glasgow. By J. DEAS, M.
Page 278 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth, composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now, with water and earth composed of entire particles at the beginning ; and therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations, and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Page 513 - The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
Page 40 - A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man: He now is first, but is he the last? is he not too base?
Page 38 - ... animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated...
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Page 30 - What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include similar bones, in the same relative positions...