The History of Creation Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8. German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ...K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1892 |
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... languages . I hope that it may also find sympathy in the fatherland of Darwin , the more so since it contains special morphological evidence in favour of many of the important doctrines with which this greatest naturalist of our century ...
... languages . I hope that it may also find sympathy in the fatherland of Darwin , the more so since it contains special morphological evidence in favour of many of the important doctrines with which this greatest naturalist of our century ...
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... language , originating with the head of some family , become , through the extension of the family , indigenous throughout a whole district . If the district is separated and isolated , and if the language is not brought back to its ...
... language , originating with the head of some family , become , through the extension of the family , indigenous throughout a whole district . If the district is separated and isolated , and if the language is not brought back to its ...
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... language with the species of organisms , a comparison which is of the greatest use to Comparative Philology , as well as to Compara- tive Botany and Zoology . Just as , for example , the different dialects , provincialisms , branches ...
... language with the species of organisms , a comparison which is of the greatest use to Comparative Philology , as well as to Compara- tive Botany and Zoology . Just as , for example , the different dialects , provincialisms , branches ...
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... language , which , consisting at first of rough and disjointed sounds , soon became more connected , developed , and articulate . The development of articulate speech now in turn became the strongest lever for a further progressive ...
... language , which , consisting at first of rough and disjointed sounds , soon became more connected , developed , and articulate . The development of articulate speech now in turn became the strongest lever for a further progressive ...
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