The Natural History Review, 13–16. numberHodges & Smith, 1864 |
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... tion of the Australian terrestrial Mammals , Placental and Impla- cental . The species are deduced from Mr. Gould's work , but arranged according to Mr. Waterhouse's classification : - IMPLACENTALS ( 107 ) . FAMILY . GENUS . Tas- mania ...
... tion of the Australian terrestrial Mammals , Placental and Impla- cental . The species are deduced from Mr. Gould's work , but arranged according to Mr. Waterhouse's classification : - IMPLACENTALS ( 107 ) . FAMILY . GENUS . Tas- mania ...
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... tion of that country through a long series of ages . During the time while the great mass of earth on this side of the globe was producing the several Orders of Placentals and their subordinate groups , physi- cal peculiarities in the ...
... tion of that country through a long series of ages . During the time while the great mass of earth on this side of the globe was producing the several Orders of Placentals and their subordinate groups , physi- cal peculiarities in the ...
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... tion in Britain , Mr. Watson's " Cybele Britannica . " We have no remark to offer with reference to Mr. Baker's valuable enumeration , which occupies nearly all the rest of the book , -about 146 pages . We have already indicated the ...
... tion in Britain , Mr. Watson's " Cybele Britannica . " We have no remark to offer with reference to Mr. Baker's valuable enumeration , which occupies nearly all the rest of the book , -about 146 pages . We have already indicated the ...
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... tion , or proportion , to the apparent affinity of the parents , some curi- ous exceptions are pointed out . Thus the three " species " of Gourd affording esculent fruit , which resemble each other so nearly that " most botanists are ...
... tion , or proportion , to the apparent affinity of the parents , some curi- ous exceptions are pointed out . Thus the three " species " of Gourd affording esculent fruit , which resemble each other so nearly that " most botanists are ...
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... tion take place between a pollen - grain and ovule both returned to the female parent , Prof. A. Braun's figures have familiarized us with these freaks in the floral organs , but surely in this hybrid the disjunction originates more ...
... tion take place between a pollen - grain and ovule both returned to the female parent , Prof. A. Braun's figures have familiarized us with these freaks in the floral organs , but surely in this hybrid the disjunction originates more ...
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Page 566 - Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part varies more or less from the same part in the parents . . . The external conditions of life, as climate and food, &c., seem to have induced some slight modifications.
Page 428 - And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
Page 424 - Hyaenas' coprolites, and human objects, was agglutinated to the roof by the infiltration of water holding lime in solution. That subsequently, and within the human period, such a great amount of change took place in the physical configuration of the district as to have caused the cave to be washed out and emptied of its contents, excepting the patches of material cemented to the roof and since coated with additional stalagmite.
Page 39 - As to the successions, or coming in, of new species, one might speculate on the gradual modifiability of the individual; on the tendency of certain varieties to survive local changes, and thus progressively diverge from an older type; on the production and fertility of monstrous offspring; on the possibility, eg, of a variety of auk being occasionally hatched with a somewhat longer winglet, and a dwarfed stature ; on the probability of such a variety better adapting itself to the changing climate...
Page 331 - Tribes in which such mental and moral qualities were predominant would therefore have an advantage in the struggle for existence over other tribes in which they were less developed, would live and maintain their numbers, while the others would decrease and finally succumb.
Page 42 - ... inconsistent with, the whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a single one of these facts which can be shown to be inconsistent with (I do not merely mean inexplicable by, but contrary to,) the hypothesis, the hypothesis falls to the ground, — it is worth nothing.
Page 332 - Thus man, by the mere capacity of clothing himself, and making weapons and tools, has taken away from nature that power of slowly but permanently changing the external form and structure, in accordance with changes in the external world, which she exercises over all other animals.
Page 331 - ... while the form and structure of his body will remain unchanged. So when a glacial epoch comes on, some animals must acquire warmer fur, or a covering of fat, or else die of cold. Those best clothed by nature are, therefore, preserved by natural selection. Man, under the same circumstances, will make himself warmer clothing, and build better houses; and the necessity of doing this will react upon his mental organisation and social condition - will advance them while his natural body remains naked...
Page 572 - Natura non facit saltum." We greatly suspect that she does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms.
Page 334 - As the earth has gone through its grand cycles of geological, climatal and organic progress, every form of life has been subject to its irresistible action, and has been continually, but imperceptibly moulded into such new shapes as would preserve their harmony with the ever changing universe. No living thing could escape this law of its being; none could remain unchanged and live, amid the universal change around it.