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Side 29
... Europe , its higher cliffs with the dwarf - willows and mosses of Nova Zembla , while its snowy peaks are as void of life as the ice - bound shores of the arctic circle . Besides these conditions , there are others of site , or locality ...
... Europe , its higher cliffs with the dwarf - willows and mosses of Nova Zembla , while its snowy peaks are as void of life as the ice - bound shores of the arctic circle . Besides these conditions , there are others of site , or locality ...
Side 49
... Europe or the steppes of Tartary ; and yet , till man carried him . thither a few hundred years ago , no horse of the current epoch existed there . The ornithorhynchus burrows only in the river banks of Australia ; the apteryx is ...
... Europe or the steppes of Tartary ; and yet , till man carried him . thither a few hundred years ago , no horse of the current epoch existed there . The ornithorhynchus burrows only in the river banks of Australia ; the apteryx is ...
Side 102
... Europe , whose representatives are now found only in the tropics - we know too little of the nature of the plants to say under what conditions of climate they would attain their greatest exuberance , though we clearly perceive from ...
... Europe , whose representatives are now found only in the tropics - we know too little of the nature of the plants to say under what conditions of climate they would attain their greatest exuberance , though we clearly perceive from ...
Side 110
... European and 2 Nova Scotian coal - fields , however , we have five or six genera of frog - like and lizard - like forms - some evidently aquatic , others amphibious , and some fitted for an arboreal habitat . They are known by such ...
... European and 2 Nova Scotian coal - fields , however , we have five or six genera of frog - like and lizard - like forms - some evidently aquatic , others amphibious , and some fitted for an arboreal habitat . They are known by such ...
Side 124
... Europe , only a few insignificant serpulæ and a single crustacean ( palinu- rus ) being all that have yet turned up to the palæontolo- gist ; thus leaving an almost unbridged gulf between the higher annelids , crustacea , and insects of ...
... Europe , only a few insignificant serpulæ and a single crustacean ( palinu- rus ) being all that have yet turned up to the palæontolo- gist ; thus leaving an almost unbridged gulf between the higher annelids , crustacea , and insects of ...
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe, a Sketch of the World's Life-System Co-Director Media South Asia Project Institute of Development Studies David Page Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Side 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Side 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...