On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
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Page 122
... marsupials , which are divided into groups differing but little from each other , and feebly representing , as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked , our carnivorous , ruminant , and rodent mam- mals , could successfully compete with ...
... marsupials , which are divided into groups differing but little from each other , and feebly representing , as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked , our carnivorous , ruminant , and rodent mam- mals , could successfully compete with ...
Page 136
... marsupials , edentata , and rodents , co - exist in South America in the same region with numerous monkeys , and probably interfere little with each other . Although organisation , on the whole , may have advanced and be advancing ...
... marsupials , edentata , and rodents , co - exist in South America in the same region with numerous monkeys , and probably interfere little with each other . Although organisation , on the whole , may have advanced and be advancing ...
Page 369
... marsupials should have been chiefly or solely produced in Australia ; or that Eden- tata and other American types should have been solely produced in South America . For we know that Europe in ancient times was peopled by numerous ...
... marsupials should have been chiefly or solely produced in Australia ; or that Eden- tata and other American types should have been solely produced in South America . For we know that Europe in ancient times was peopled by numerous ...
Page 448
... Marsupials - the manner in which the wings of insects are folded - mere colour in certain Alga - mere pubescence on parts of the flower in grasses the nature of the dermal covering , as hair or feathers , in the Vertebrata . If the ...
... Marsupials - the manner in which the wings of insects are folded - mere colour in certain Alga - mere pubescence on parts of the flower in grasses the nature of the dermal covering , as hair or feathers , in the Vertebrata . If the ...
Page 461
... Marsupials ; but in the points in which it approaches this order , its relations are general , and not to any one marsupial species more than to another . As the points of affinity of the bizcacha to Marsupials are believed to be real ...
... Marsupials ; but in the points in which it approaches this order , its relations are general , and not to any one marsupial species more than to another . As the points of affinity of the bizcacha to Marsupials are believed to be real ...
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