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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... translated into several 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 ...
... translated into several 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 ...
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... translated into German by Victor Carus.14 It con- tains a rich abundance of the most valuable evidence as to the extraordinary changes of organic forms which man can produce by cultivation and artificial selection . How- ever much we ...
... translated into German by Victor Carus.14 It con- tains a rich abundance of the most valuable evidence as to the extraordinary changes of organic forms which man can produce by cultivation and artificial selection . How- ever much we ...
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... translated into German by Victor Carus.48 Darwin's ingenious work on physiognomy , " The Expression of the Emotions in Man and the Animals , " which appeared in 1872 , may be considered a supplement to it . The careful study which ...
... translated into German by Victor Carus.48 Darwin's ingenious work on physiognomy , " The Expression of the Emotions in Man and the Animals , " which appeared in 1872 , may be considered a supplement to it . The careful study which ...
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... Translated by JOSEPH WRIGHT . Vol . I. Introduction and Phonetics . 8vo , 18s . BRYANT , Sophie , D.Sc. - Celtic Ireland . With 3 Maps . Crown 8vo , 5s . BURKE , The Late Very Rev. T. N. - His Life . By W. J. FITZ- PATRICK . 2 vols ...
... Translated by JOSEPH WRIGHT . Vol . I. Introduction and Phonetics . 8vo , 18s . BRYANT , Sophie , D.Sc. - Celtic Ireland . With 3 Maps . Crown 8vo , 5s . BURKE , The Late Very Rev. T. N. - His Life . By W. J. FITZ- PATRICK . 2 vols ...
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... Translated from the Greek . Demy 8vo , 7s . 6d . CHARNOCK , Richard Stephen . — A Glossary of the Essex Dialect . Fcap . , 3s . 6d . Nuces Etymologicæ . Crown 8vo , 10s . Pronomina ; or , The Etymology of the Principal Christian Names ...
... Translated from the Greek . Demy 8vo , 7s . 6d . CHARNOCK , Richard Stephen . — A Glossary of the Essex Dialect . Fcap . , 3s . 6d . Nuces Etymologicæ . Crown 8vo , 10s . Pronomina ; or , The Etymology of the Principal Christian Names ...
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