Panbiogeography: The New WorldLéon Croizat, 1958 - Biogeography |
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... nature . When we claim running against contradictory facts in nature we do much less charge nature with acting against reason than we implicitly admit ourselves not being ready to appreciate its message . The contradiction is ...
... nature . When we claim running against contradictory facts in nature we do much less charge nature with acting against reason than we implicitly admit ourselves not being ready to appreciate its message . The contradiction is ...
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... nature , and whatever the measure Solidago multiradiata would thus remain answerable forever to intrinsic and extrinsic factors , as above outlined . The effects of these factors might be spectacular ( as today , in restricting S ...
... nature , and whatever the measure Solidago multiradiata would thus remain answerable forever to intrinsic and extrinsic factors , as above outlined . The effects of these factors might be spectacular ( as today , in restricting S ...
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... Nature acts by averages , and definitions hardly go well with averages , therefore I should advise that nature is understood at first without definitions , in its broadest aspects , every naturalist forming his own understanding in ...
... Nature acts by averages , and definitions hardly go well with averages , therefore I should advise that nature is understood at first without definitions , in its broadest aspects , every naturalist forming his own understanding in ...
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accordingly affinity Africa Amazonas Andean Antioquia Argentina assuredly Bahamas biogeographic birds Bogotá Bolívar Bolivia Bond Brazil Capitonidae Caribbean Cauca Cayman Central America Chapter Colombia colonizing flights conclusion contrary Cordillera Costarica course Cretaceous Cuba Cundinamarca disconnected discussion distribution Eastern ecology Ecuador endemic essentially eventually evolution fauna follows form-making forms fossil Galapagos genera genus geography geological Geosyncline Greater Antilles groups Guiana Hellmayr highlands Hispaniola Honduras Huila islands Jamaica landbridges Lesser Antilles Macarena Madagascar Magdalena major mammals massing matter Matthew means of dispersal Mérida Mexico Mimidae modern Nariño naturalist nature Node North Northern Northwestern Nuclear Central America Pacific Panama pattern Peru phytogeography Picidae plants Portorico races range reader records Revilla Gigedo Río Santa Marta science of dispersal score sector Sierra Simpson South America Southern southward species stand Táchira taxonomic Territorio Amazonas Tertiary track Trinidad BWI Troglodytidae tropical understanding Venezuela West Western Ecuador whole World