| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...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...adaptations, and until these could be explained it seemed to be almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified. Thus... | |
| Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...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 - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...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 - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 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 - Autobiography - 1887 - 420 pages
...life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal byhooks or 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... | |
| William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...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 - Naturalists - 1888 - 584 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 modif1ed. perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July 1837. I worked... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1888 - 572 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...had always been much struck by such adaptations, and nutil these could be explained it seemed to me almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence... | |
| Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...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. following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 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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