The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... marked features , we find that they have a tendency to succeed each other in a regular order , with corresponding differences in the immediate progeny , to which the term of alternation of generations has been applied ; and this ...
... marked features , we find that they have a tendency to succeed each other in a regular order , with corresponding differences in the immediate progeny , to which the term of alternation of generations has been applied ; and this ...
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... marked cases of alternation , due to the evolution of protomorphic zooids , are confined to a few of the lower orders , a certain nisus or tendency in this direction - a fresh start , as it were , in the course of germinal development ...
... marked cases of alternation , due to the evolution of protomorphic zooids , are confined to a few of the lower orders , a certain nisus or tendency in this direction - a fresh start , as it were , in the course of germinal development ...
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... marked by the formation of sexual or gamomorphic * An argument of all the greater cogency if Conurus be , as Siebold contends , a mere variety of Cysticercus . Even in admitted forms of Cysticercus , how ever , such multiple gemmation ...
... marked by the formation of sexual or gamomorphic * An argument of all the greater cogency if Conurus be , as Siebold contends , a mere variety of Cysticercus . Even in admitted forms of Cysticercus , how ever , such multiple gemmation ...
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... marked illustrations of it . The first set of teeth , for instance , are formed , each in its own capsule , by a process of local growth , quite independent of that of the neighbouring tissues , nay , in B 2 Genetic Cycle in Organic ...
... marked illustrations of it . The first set of teeth , for instance , are formed , each in its own capsule , by a process of local growth , quite independent of that of the neighbouring tissues , nay , in B 2 Genetic Cycle in Organic ...
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... marked off from the neighbouring parts , and in this succession of growth , maturation , and decay - repeated again and again , and epitomizing , as it were , the life of the animal on which they grow - evidence of a vitality quite as ...
... marked off from the neighbouring parts , and in this succession of growth , maturation , and decay - repeated again and again , and epitomizing , as it were , the life of the animal on which they grow - evidence of a vitality quite as ...
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