The Geological evidence of the antiquity of manG.W. Childs, 1863 - 518 sayfa |
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Abbeville Acheul alluded alluvial alluvium Alps Amiens ancient animals antiquity Aurignac basin beds belong boulder brain British bronze cave caverns century chalk CHAP character clay cliffs Crag Danish deposits depth drift elephant Elephas antiquus Engis Eocene erratic blocks Europe existence extinct mammalia fauna feet thick flint implements flint tools flora fluviatile formation fossil fragments fresh-water genera geographical geological geologists glacial period glaciers Glen Roy gravel Greenland hatchets height hippopotamus human bones hundred imbedded inhabiting islands lakes land Liége living species loam loess lower mammalia mammoth marine shells mastodon memoir miles Miocene moraines natural Neanderthal observed occur origin peat plants pliocene posterior present Prestwich primigenius Professor quadrupeds race recent region remains Rhine rhinoceros river rocks sand Schmerling Scotland seen skeleton skull Somme stone period strata stratified submergence supposed surface Switzerland tertiary theory tion transmutation upper valley
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Sayfa 507 - orderly and constant, however infinitely diversified, action of the intelligent, efficient Cause." They who maintain that the origin of an individual, as well as the origin of a species or a genus, can be explained only by the direct action of the creative cause, may retain their favorite theory compatibly with the
Sayfa 499 - of the immortality of man apply equally to the permanency of this principle in other living beings." Although the author has no intention by this remark to impugn the truth of the great doctrine alluded to, it may be well to observe, that if some of the arguments in
Sayfa 233 - glass. In all countries the fundamental rock on which the boulder formation reposes, if it consists of granite, gneiss, marble, or other hard stone capable of permanently retaining any superficial markings which may have been imprinted upon it, is smoothed or polished, and exhibits parallel strise and furrows having a determinate direction. This
Sayfa 6 - and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many generations of each species of tree flourished in succession before the pine was supplanted by the oak, and the oak by the beech, can be but vaguely conjectured, but the minimum of time required for the formation of so much peat must,
Sayfa 508 - of design, and therefore of a designer, as valid as ever; "for to do any work by an instrument must require, and therefore presuppose, the exertion rather of more than of less power, than to do it directly."* As to the charge of materialism brought against all
Sayfa 508 - of the development theory, Dr. Gray has done well to remind us that " of the two great minds of the seventeenth century, Newton and Leibnitz, both profoundly religious as well as philosophical, one produced the theory of gravitation, the other objected to that theory that it was subversive of natural
Sayfa 78 - 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 (a d ) be made horizontal, no part of the occiput projects more than
Sayfa 71 - between Düsseldorf and Elberfeld. The cave occurs in the precipitous southern or left side of the winding ravine, about sixty feet above the stream, and a hundred feet below the top of the cliff. The accompanying section will give the reader an idea of its position. Fig. 1 Section of the Neanderthal Cave near
Sayfa 41 - are growing rapidly, or where the bed of a sea or lake has been heaved up by subterranean movements and laid dry. As examples of such changes of level by which marine deposits of the recent period have become accessible to human observation, I have adduced the strata near Naples in which the Temple of
Sayfa 83 - the plane of a line joining the glabella with the occipital protuberance. B The longitudinal arc from the nasal depression along the middle line of the skull to the occipital tuberosity. c From the level of the glabello-occipital line on each side, across the middle of the sagittal suture to the