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... known fossiliferous strata .. Page 302-337 CHAPTER X. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS . - On the slow and successive appearance of new species - On their different rates of change - Species once lost do not reappear ...
... known fossiliferous strata .. Page 302-337 CHAPTER X. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS . - On the slow and successive appearance of new species - On their different rates of change - Species once lost do not reappear ...
Page xiv
... known paper ( Edinburgh Philosophical Journal , vol . xiv . p . 283 ) on the Spongilla , clearly declares his belief that species are descended from other species , and that they become improved in the course of modification . This same ...
... known paper ( Edinburgh Philosophical Journal , vol . xiv . p . 283 ) on the Spongilla , clearly declares his belief that species are descended from other species , and that they become improved in the course of modification . This same ...
Page xviii
... known , been main- tained by Oken in his mystical Natur - Philosophie . ' From other references in Godron's work ' Sur l'Espèce , ' it seems that Bory St. Vincent , Burdach , Poiret , and Fries , have all admitted that new species are ...
... known , been main- tained by Oken in his mystical Natur - Philosophie . ' From other references in Godron's work ' Sur l'Espèce , ' it seems that Bory St. Vincent , Burdach , Poiret , and Fries , have all admitted that new species are ...
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... known laws of variation and of corre- lation of growth . In the four succeeding chapters , the most apparent and gravest difficulties on the theory will be given : namely , first , the difficulties of transitions , or in understanding ...
... known laws of variation and of corre- lation of growth . In the four succeeding chapters , the most apparent and gravest difficulties on the theory will be given : namely , first , the difficulties of transitions , or in understanding ...
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... known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage . But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension , and that when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should ...
... known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage . But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension , and that when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should ...
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