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... animal and vegetable world , we should find , preceding what now exists , animals and plants not identical with them , but like them , only increasing their differences as we go back in time , and at the same time becoming simpler and ...
... animal and vegetable world , we should find , preceding what now exists , animals and plants not identical with them , but like them , only increasing their differences as we go back in time , and at the same time becoming simpler and ...
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... animals has been explained by at least seven distinct hypotheses : ( 1. ) Self - elevation by appetency , or use and effort . That is the theory of Monboddo , Lamarck , and Cope . ( 2. ) Modification by the surrounding condition of the ...
... animals has been explained by at least seven distinct hypotheses : ( 1. ) Self - elevation by appetency , or use and effort . That is the theory of Monboddo , Lamarck , and Cope . ( 2. ) Modification by the surrounding condition of the ...
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... animal forms . 15. They exaggerate resemblances by broadly in- accurate pictorial representation . The Eocene horse ... animals , of organs of no use to the possessors under the laws of either natural or sexual selection . 18. In ...
... animal forms . 15. They exaggerate resemblances by broadly in- accurate pictorial representation . The Eocene horse ... animals , of organs of no use to the possessors under the laws of either natural or sexual selection . 18. In ...
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... animals , and least of all do they account for man ( DANA , Manual of Geology , pp . 590–604 ) . Professor Gray calls himself , in his latest work , a " convinced theist , and religiously an accepter of the creed commonly called the ...
... animals , and least of all do they account for man ( DANA , Manual of Geology , pp . 590–604 ) . Professor Gray calls himself , in his latest work , a " convinced theist , and religiously an accepter of the creed commonly called the ...
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... that he never denied the possibility of creative intervention in the origin of species ; that he never depended exclusively on natural selection for the explanation of variations in animal forms HUXLEY AND TYNDALL ON EVOLUTION . 29.
... that he never denied the possibility of creative intervention in the origin of species ; that he never depended exclusively on natural selection for the explanation of variations in animal forms HUXLEY AND TYNDALL ON EVOLUTION . 29.
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