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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... "
From the Greeks to Darwin: An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea - Page 234
by Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1905 - 259 pages
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 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...could be explained it seemed to me almost useless to endeavor to prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England...
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Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection

Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - Astronomy - 1896 - 244 pages
...which organisms are fitted to their habits of life— " for instance, a wood-pecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes "—as the most striking and important phenomena of the organic world, and the one great difficulty...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1897 - 598 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...
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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley: With an Intermediate Chapter on ...

Edward Clodd - Science - 1897 - 284 pages
...innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life. ... I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. ... In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic inquiry, I happened to...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1898 - 588 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...
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in a Autobiographical Chapter, and in a ...

Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1902 - 372 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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The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer ...

Evolution - 1902 - 200 pages
...life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks cr plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...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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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 44

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1905 - 580 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." (I, p. 82.) The facts to which reference is here made were, without doubt, eminently fitted to attract...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 6

Literature - 1909 - 846 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a treefrog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. Thus in July, 1837, he opened his first note-book for the collection of all facts which bore in any...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 6

Literature - 1909 - 838 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a treefrog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. Thus in July, 1837, he opened his first note-book for the collection of all facts which bore in any...
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