The whole range of the Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species, which has had a wider geographical distribution, and at the same time passed through a longer term of time, and through more extreme changes of climatal conditions, than the... The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution - Page 104by Edward Drinker Cope - 1886 - 467 pagesFull view - About this book
| Biology - 1863 - 656 pages
...Natural Selection ' is merely an adjunct. The whole range of the Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species, which has had a wider geographical...term of time, and through more extreme changes of clirnatal conditions, than the Mammoth. If species are so unstable, and so susceptible of mutation... | |
| Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt - Crete (Greece) - 1865 - 498 pages
...account for the phenomena." Again he says, "The whole range of the Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species which has had a wider geographical...form stand out so signally a monument of stability?" It will be sufficient for my object and aim to make THE CRISELS, AND THE FORAMINIFEKA. 289 one more... | |
| Biology - 1868 - 760 pages
...Natural Selection ' is merely an adjunct. The whole range of the Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species, which has had a wider geographical...researches and earnest writings, Darwin has, beyond all his coternporaries, given an impulse to the philosophical investigation of the most, backward and obscure... | |
| Biology - 1868 - 466 pages
...natural selection is merely an adjunct. " The whole range of the mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species, which has had a wider geographical...extreme changes of climatal conditions than the mammoth. *See writings of Hugh Falconer, vol. ii. (Ed. by Murehison.) * " If species are so unstable and so... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1880 - 462 pages
...(p. 252). " The whole range of the mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species which has a wider geographical distribution, and at the same time passed through a longer period of time and through more extremechanges of climatical conditions, than the mammoth. If species... | |
| Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 416 pages
...Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species which has had a wider geographical distribution, and passed through a longer term of time, and through...researches and earnest writings, Darwin has, beyond all his cotemporaries, given an impulse to the philosophical investigation of the most backward and obscure... | |
| Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 426 pages
...Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species which has had a wider geographical distribution, and passed through a longer term of time, and through...researches and earnest writings, Darwin has, beyond all his cotemporaries, given an impulse to the philosophical investigation of the most backward and obscure... | |
| Charles Darwin, Joy Harvey, Duncan M. Porter, Jonathan R. Topham - Naturalists - 1997 - 1018 pages
...of the published paper Falconer 1863): The whole range ol the Mammalia, toss il and recent, cannot furnish a species, which has had a wider geographical distribution, and at the s.iint- time passed through a longer term of time, and through more extreme changes of climatal conditions,... | |
| Claudine Cohen - Nature - 2002 - 334 pages
...Darwin: it embodies the stability of a form. "The whole range of the Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species which has had a wider geographical...distribution, and at the same time passed through more extreme changes of climatic conditions, than the Mammoth. If [as Darwin thinks] species are so... | |
| Stephen Jay GOULD, Stephen Jay Gould - Science - 2009 - 408 pages
...environments — raises for evolutionary theory: "The whole range of the Mammalia, fossil and recent, cannot furnish a species which has had a wider geographical...time, and through more extreme changes of climatal (sic) conditions, than the Mammoth. If species are so unstable, and so susceptible of mutation through... | |
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