 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 pages
...been much struck by such adaptations [eg woodpecker and tree-frog for climbing, seeds for dispersal], and until these could be explained it seemed to me...indirect evidence that species have been modified." Autobiography in Life and Letten of Charles Darwin, Vol. 1. p. 82. The same thought is repeated again... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1911 - 586 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July 1837. I worked on true... | |
 | Edward Stuart Russell - Morphology (Animals). - 1916 - 410 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified." J All Darwin's varied subsequent work revolved round these, for him, essential problems—How do species... | |
 | Edward Stuart Russell - Morphology (Animals). - 1916 - 420 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by- hooks...prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified."1 All Darwin's varied subsequent work revolved round these, for him, essential problems—How... | |
 | Edward Stuart Russell - Morphology (Animals). - 1916 - 414 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified."l All Darwin's varied subsequent work revolved round these, for him, essential problems—How... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Science - 1925 - 492 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. " After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in geology, and... | |
 | Leonard Huxley - Naturalists - 1927 - 160 pages
...beautiful adaptations of organisms to their habits of life. Until these could be explained it seemed to him almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified. VI THE KEY OF THE PROBLEM AND THE FIRST SKETCHES OF THE THEORY WHERE, then, was direct evidence to... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - Science - 1958 - 402 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - Science - 1958 - 402 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
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tree frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal, by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations ; and until these could be explained, it seemed to me almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species have... 
