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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... , and by the extraordinary insight with which he has explained in their pages the most complicated structures . Oxford , February , 1892 . E. RAY LANKESTER . THE HISTORY OF CREATION . CHAPTER I. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE xxiv PREFACE .
... , and by the extraordinary insight with which he has explained in their pages the most complicated structures . Oxford , February , 1892 . E. RAY LANKESTER . THE HISTORY OF CREATION . CHAPTER I. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE xxiv PREFACE .
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... explained and its causes understood by the Theory of Descent , while without that theory it remains completely incomprehensible and inexplicable . The Theory of Descent in the same way shows us why individual animals and plants must ...
... explained and its causes understood by the Theory of Descent , while without that theory it remains completely incomprehensible and inexplicable . The Theory of Descent in the same way shows us why individual animals and plants must ...
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... explained , if we admit that all the plants of this family sprang from one common ancestor , provided with five stamens . I have here spoken somewhat fully of the phenomena of rudimentary organs , because they are of the utmost general ...
... explained , if we admit that all the plants of this family sprang from one common ancestor , provided with five stamens . I have here spoken somewhat fully of the phenomena of rudimentary organs , because they are of the utmost general ...
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... explained mechanically , but which must owe its origin necessarily to a higher , supernatural creative power , acting for a definite purpose . In this general view it is quite indifferent whether the PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY . 21.
... explained mechanically , but which must owe its origin necessarily to a higher , supernatural creative power , acting for a definite purpose . In this general view it is quite indifferent whether the PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY . 21.
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... explained by it , as well as by the simplicity and universality of the causes which are employed in it as grounds of explanation . On the one hand , the greater the number and the more important the meaning of the phenomena explained by ...
... explained by it , as well as by the simplicity and universality of the causes which are employed in it as grounds of explanation . On the one hand , the greater the number and the more important the meaning of the phenomena explained by ...
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