| Tim Flannery - 2002 - 464 lehte
...of evolution, Alfred Russell Wallace, summarised the phenomenon splendidly as long ago as 1876: 180 We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now that they have gone. Yet it is surely a marvellous fact, and one that has hardly been sufficiently... | |
| Tim Flannery - 2002 - 444 lehte
...Russel Wallace, added to the insight by recognising that the phenomenon was a near-global one, stating, 'we live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared'.1 Wallace called the extinction of the giants a 'marvellous fact', and over the century... | |
| Alfred W. Crosby - 2002 - 226 lehte
...University Press, 1986), 222. 17 Genesis 1. FOUR The Upper Paleolithic: "Humans and Other Catastrophes"1 We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strongest forms have recently disappeared; and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now they... | |
| David Christian - 2004 - 676 lehte
...with varying degrees of intensity in much of the world, from the Pacific to Eurasia to the Americas: "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now that they have gone. Yet it is surely a marvelous fact, and one that has hardly been sufficiently dwelt... | |
| Paul A. LaViolette - 2005 - 452 lehte
...world record this disaster. The nineteenth-century English naturalist Alfred Wallace once commented: We live in a zoologically impoverished world from...fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared ... yet 5 ISI i II « 1.5 _ rr 0 ^ CO ir CO O 1 . 0 0 Q. ° Q. w S 8QI 0.5 <O — ' Pleistocene .2... | |
| M. Vázquez, Arnold Hanslmeier - 2005 - 405 lehte
...becoming extinct and others rapidly emerging. Alfred Wallace (1823-1913) expressed this with the worlds "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared". In short, the discussion was about the main driving agent in the biological evolution: chance (contingency)... | |
| Donald R. Prothero - 2006 - 393 lehte
...extinctions. Darwin's co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace (1876), wrote that "we live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared." Almost as soon as Cuvier demonstrated that the mammoths and other large Pleistocene mammals were extinct,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1876 - 886 lehte
...America alike since Post-Pliocene times, " it is clear," our author tells ' Continued from p. 1 68. us, "that we are now in an altogether exceptional period of the earth's history," some idea of which it is very necessary to realise. " We live in an impoverished world, from which... | |
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