 Abortive stamens, rudimentary floral envelopes and undeveloped carpels, are of the most frequent occurrence. To every thoughtful naturalist the question must arise, What are these for ? What have they to do with the great laws of creation ? Do they not...  Annals & Magazine of Natural History - Page 1951855Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 490 lehte
...with pre-existing species, what do these rudiments, these apparent imperfections mean ? There must bo a cause for them ; they must be the necessary results...been endeavoured to be shown, the great law which lias regulated the peopling of the earth with animal and vegetable life is, that every change shall... | |
 | 1879 - 978 lehte
...veriest fragments of knowledge. For, as Mr. AR Wallace has remarked regarding rudimentary organs, " There must be a cause for them ; they must be the necessary results of some great law." And again are this author's words most appropriate when he says : " Many more of these modifications... | |
 | 1879 - 822 lehte
...veriest fragments of knowledge. For, as Mr. AR Wallace has remarked regarding rudimentary organs, " there must be a cause for them ; they must be the necessary results of some great law." And again are this author's words most appropriate when he says : " Many more of these modifications... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...do with the great laws of something of the system create(1 independently, with pre-existing species, imperfections mean? There must be a cause for them ; they must be the results of some great natural law. Now, if, as it has beei endeavoured to be shown, the great law which... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 530 lehte
...system of nature? If each species has been created independently, and without any necessary relation with preexisting species, what do these rudiments,...must be a cause for them; they must be the necessary result of some great natural law. Now, if ... the great law which has regulated the peopling of the... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 352 lehte
...system of nature ? If each species has been created independently, and without any necessary relation with pre-existing species, what do these rudiments,...must be a cause for them; they must be the necessary result of some great natural law. Now, if ... the great Jaw which has regulated the peopling of the... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 lehte
...series of jointed finger-bones in the paddle of the Manatus and whale," and asks the heretical question: "If each species has been created independently, and...the necessary results of some great natural law." That great natural law, of course, was Wallace's own, which he equates in his final sentence with those... | |
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