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Página 57 - radiation in Africa; that they survived after the glacial period, only in the Oriental or Indo-Malayan region, and that this accounts for the marked community of fauna between this region and the Ethiopian as observed by BLAXFORD and ALLEN. Against the prevalent theory of Oriental origin of these animals are: first, the fact observed by
Página 374 - No. 10, June 15, 1921; the fourth paper appears in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, under the title. "Evolution, Phylogeny, and Classification of the Mastodontoidea;" the present is the fifth paper. The Iconographic Type Revision will form one of the Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. « Herluf Winge, 1906, p. 172. •Ibid.
Página 68 - 1894 1. Environment in its Influence upon the Successive Stages of Development and as a Cause of Variation. Opening Discussion before the American Society of Naturalists, Baltimore, Dec. 27, 1894. Science, Jan. 11, pp. 35, 36. Biol. 9 2. A Division of the Eutherian Mammals into the Mesoplacentalia and
Página 69 - Lab. Ginn & Co., Boston, 1895. Also Amer. Nat., May, 1895, pp. 418-439. Biol. 12 3. Fossil Mammals of the Uinta Basin. Expedition of 1894. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. VII, Art.
Página 374 - the original members of which were doubtless ancestral to all the higher elephants, persist as an independent branch into the Lower Pleistocene of eastern Asia. 10. Loxodontinae, embracing the great African division of the elephants beginning with Loxodonta antiqua of the Upper Pliocene, which wandered all over southern Eurasia and radiated widely over Africa. 11.
Página 372 - a special branch entering the Andean region of South America and spreading over the South American continent, distinguished by the loss of the lower tusks and the abbreviation of the jaw. 6. Longirostrinae, typical long-jawed bunomastodonts arising in North Africa (Phiomia), spreading all over southern Europe, Asia, and North America, and giving off: 7.
Página 256 - Alps, Pyrenees and Altai Mountains to the high, dry steppes of central Asia with their alternating heat of summer and cold of winter, from the tundras or barren grounds of Scandinavia, northern Europe and Siberia to the mild climate of southern Europe. All these animals had been evolving during the Pliocene Epoch in these various habitats and they