The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Speculations, and Its Theistic BearingsHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 148 pages |
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Page 67
... ostracods . But we have said no trace of such forms has been discovered . Similar statements apply to the other family types of the primordial zone ; and , in fact , to a large number * Op . cit . , p . 206 . † Ibid . , pp . 200 , 201 ...
... ostracods . But we have said no trace of such forms has been discovered . Similar statements apply to the other family types of the primordial zone ; and , in fact , to a large number * Op . cit . , p . 206 . † Ibid . , pp . 200 , 201 ...
Page 128
... later phase is 20. This excess of first appear- ances characterizes nearly all the separate orders of animals as well as the aggregate . The genera of trilobites in the two phases are 18 and 10 ; ostracods , 2 and 128 APPENDIX .
... later phase is 20. This excess of first appear- ances characterizes nearly all the separate orders of animals as well as the aggregate . The genera of trilobites in the two phases are 18 and 10 ; ostracods , 2 and 128 APPENDIX .
Page 129
... ostracods , 2 and 0 ; annelids , 4 and 1 ; brachiopods , 9 and 3 ; bryozoa , 3 and 1 ; cystideans , 6 and 0 . This considerable number of primordial genera , especially in the earlier phase , ought to arrest the attention of those ...
... ostracods , 2 and 0 ; annelids , 4 and 1 ; brachiopods , 9 and 3 ; bryozoa , 3 and 1 ; cystideans , 6 and 0 . This considerable number of primordial genera , especially in the earlier phase , ought to arrest the attention of those ...
Page 139
... differentiated from each other as the same types in any succeeding age , or even in the actual fauna . For example , among crustaceans we have trilobites , phyllo- pods , and ostracods . But between a trilobite , APPENDIX . 139.
... differentiated from each other as the same types in any succeeding age , or even in the actual fauna . For example , among crustaceans we have trilobites , phyllo- pods , and ostracods . But between a trilobite , APPENDIX . 139.
Page 140
... ostracods . But between a trilobite , like Paradox- ides ( somewhat lobster - like ) and an ostracod , like Primitia , a little bivalve crustacean , the difference of conformation is so marked that , were we to refer them to any common ...
... ostracods . But between a trilobite , like Paradox- ides ( somewhat lobster - like ) and an ostracod , like Primitia , a little bivalve crustacean , the difference of conformation is so marked that , were we to refer them to any common ...
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Page 119 - 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.