| 1902 - 642 페이지
...countries where larger species of the same natural families formerly existed is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species,...animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species.' All this is admirably sound, and Darwin himself would not... | |
| 1851 - 438 페이지
...formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual diminution of the size of such larger animals, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of the " oak and the reed" — the small animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes under which the larger species have... | |
| 1851 - 450 페이지
...formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual diminution of the size of such larger animals, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of the " oak and the reed" — the small animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes under which the larger species have... | |
| 1851 - 1248 페이지
...formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual diminution of the size of such larger animals, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of the ' oak and the reed ' ; the small animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes under which the larger species have... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 페이지
...formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual diminution of the size of such larger animals, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of The Oak and the Reed ; the small animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes under which the larger species have... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 438 페이지
...formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual diminution of the size of such larger animals, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of ' the oak and the reed ' ; the small animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes under which the larger species have... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 450 페이지
...formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual diminution of the size of such larger animals, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of ' the oak and the reed ' ; the small animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes under which the larger species have... | |
| 1859 - 554 페이지
...species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not the consequence of degeneration—of any gradual diminution of the size of such species,...should become extinct, appears, from the abundant evidence of the fact of extinction, to be a, law of their existence; whether, however, it be inherent... | |
| Richard Owen - 1859 - 118 페이지
...formerly existed, is not the consequence of degeneration—of any gradual diminution of the size—of such species, but is the result of circumstances which...species should become extinct appears, from the abundant evidence of the fact of extinction, to be a law of their existence; whether, however, it be inherent... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1859 - 750 페이지
...countries where larger species of the same natural families formerly exisied, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species,...animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species." Accepting this explanation of the extirpation of species... | |
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