The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by VariationJ. W. Childs, 1863 - 526 sayfa |
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Sayfa 412 - to show, and with no small success, that all true classification in zoology and botany is, in fact, genealogical, and that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, while they often imagined that they
Sayfa 105 - • that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say,' it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion/ and, lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'" If I were considering merely the cultivators of geology, I
Sayfa 413 - modified, in the course of ages, in different ways, according to the conditions of existence. It would also explain why all living and extinct beings are united, by complex radiating and circuitous lines of affinity with one another, into one grand system;* also, there having been a continued extinction of old
Sayfa 239 - neighborhood of Upsala, I observed, in 1834, a ridge of stratified sand and gravel, in the midst of which occurs a layer of marl, evidently formed originally at the bottom of the Baltic, by the slow growth of the mussel, cockle, and other marine shells of living species intermixed with some proper to
Sayfa 192 - contemporaneously with man. But if the fossil memorials have been correctly interpreted,—if we have here before us at the northern base of the Pyrenees a sepulchral vault with skeletons of human beings, consigned by friends and relatives to their last resting-place,—if we have also at the
Sayfa 117 - • For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by nature or art; and the flint hatchets of Amiens and Abbeville seem to me as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle."* Mr. Evans classifies the implements under three
Sayfa 240 - when the north of Europe had already assumed that remarkable feature of its physical geography, which separates the Baltic from the North Sea, and causes the Gulf of Bothnia to have only one-fourth of the saltness belonging to the ocean. I cannot doubt that these large erratics of
Sayfa 415 - through the same or similar embryonic stages, we may feel assured that they have both descended from the same or nearly similar parents, and are therefore in that degree closely related. Thus community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent, however much the structure of the adult may have
Sayfa 232 - being from six to eight times more considerable than the part which is visible. Such masses, when they run aground on the bottom of the sea, must -exert a prodigious mechanical power, and may polish and groove the subjacent rocks after the manner of glaciers on the land.
Sayfa 82 - inches in length. The superciliary prominences are well, but not excessively, developed, and are separated by a median depression in the region of the glabella. They indicate large frontal sinuses. If a line joining the glabella and the occipital protuberance (ad) be made horizontal, no part of the occiput projects more than