The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of EvolutionLongmans, Green, 1894 - 242 páginas |
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... Variations are transmitted , and tend to become permanent 166 3. Man takes advantage of them to produce new varieties . 167 4. More organisms are born than survive . 5. The result is a ceaseless struggle for food and place . 6. Natural ...
... Variations are transmitted , and tend to become permanent 166 3. Man takes advantage of them to produce new varieties . 167 4. More organisms are born than survive . 5. The result is a ceaseless struggle for food and place . 6. Natural ...
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... variation being that each foot had three toes , of which only one touched the ground . Birds and insects were abundant : of the latter , thirteen hundred species have been found in Switzerland alone . The Pliocene period ushered - in ...
... variation being that each foot had three toes , of which only one touched the ground . Birds and insects were abundant : of the latter , thirteen hundred species have been found in Switzerland alone . The Pliocene period ushered - in ...
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... variations of temperature and the circulation of air and water over the surface of the earth would come into play . It is to these to the solvents of the atmosphere and rain , to the driving wind , to water in its several states and ...
... variations of temperature and the circulation of air and water over the surface of the earth would come into play . It is to these to the solvents of the atmosphere and rain , to the driving wind , to water in its several states and ...
Página 64
... variations in land and water distribution , although enormous and unceasing , have been confined to certain areas . All the evidence furnished by the aqueous rocks , from the earliest primary to the alluvial formations of to - day ...
... variations in land and water distribution , although enormous and unceasing , have been confined to certain areas . All the evidence furnished by the aqueous rocks , from the earliest primary to the alluvial formations of to - day ...
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... variation of parts , life probably began in combinations having no visible dis- tinction of parts . And as the cell is the first step in visible organisation , it is the fundamental structure of living things ; ' it marks only where the ...
... variation of parts , life probably began in combinations having no visible dis- tinction of parts . And as the cell is the first step in visible organisation , it is the fundamental structure of living things ; ' it marks only where the ...
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