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" As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. "
The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology ... - Page 727
redigeeritud poolt - 1884
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The Study of the Future: An Introduction to the Art and Science of ...

Edward Cornish - 1977 - 322 lehte
...civilization. Darwin himself gave an optimistic conclusion to The Origin of Species (1859): As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been...
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Essentials for the Scientific and Technical Writer

Hardy Hoover - 1980 - 228 lehte
...each class, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long hefore the Camhrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession hy generation has never...
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I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs

Thomas A. Sebeok - 1986 - 278 lehte
...ages. In 1859, Charles Darwin instructed the readers of his Origin of Species that "all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch," and we now have an impressive body of evidence that the direct-filiation hypothesis,...
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The Victorian Age in Prose

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 lehte
...dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the l1ving forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been...
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The Norton Book of Nature Writing

Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 lehte
...each class, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure...
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“The” Language of Science: A Study of the Relationship Between Literature ...

Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 lehte
...final chord in which Darwin most clearly expressed this morality: As all the living forms of life are lineal descendants of those which lived long before...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure...
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History of the Idea of Progress

Robert A. Nisbet - 392 lehte
...nineteenth century, the following passage from Darwin's The Origin of the Species is helpful : ... we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science

Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 lehte
...relations of life" (469). The lesson Darwin himself carries away is a sublime confidence: As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science

Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 lehte
...relations of life" (469). The lesson Darwin himself carries away is a sublime confidence: As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been...
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On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 lehte
...dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been...
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