The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManJ. Murray, 1863 - 528페이지 |
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... Loess from Switzerland to the Low Countries - Characteristic organic Remains not Lacustrine- Alpine Gravel in the Valley of the Rhine covered by Loess - Geographical Distribution of the Loess and its Height above the Sea - Fossil Mammalia ...
... Loess from Switzerland to the Low Countries - Characteristic organic Remains not Lacustrine- Alpine Gravel in the Valley of the Rhine covered by Loess - Geographical Distribution of the Loess and its Height above the Sea - Fossil Mammalia ...
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... loess . Mr. Horner attributes this want of all indication of successive deposition to the ex- treme thinness of the film of matter which is thrown down annually on the great alluvial plain during the season of in- undation . The tenuity ...
... loess . Mr. Horner attributes this want of all indication of successive deposition to the ex- treme thinness of the film of matter which is thrown down annually on the great alluvial plain during the season of in- undation . The tenuity ...
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... loess also , in the suburbs and neighbour- hood of Liége , occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river , cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re - excavation of the ...
... loess also , in the suburbs and neighbour- hood of Liége , occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river , cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re - excavation of the ...
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... loess , for the most part un- stratified , in some places with slight traces of stratification , containing freshwater and land shells , with bones of elephants , & c .; thickness about fifteen feet . 3 Alternations of beds of gravel ...
... loess , for the most part un- stratified , in some places with slight traces of stratification , containing freshwater and land shells , with bones of elephants , & c .; thickness about fifteen feet . 3 Alternations of beds of gravel ...
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... loess . In some parts of it , land shells occur . It has been ascertained by MM . Buteux , Ravin , and other observers conversant with the geology of this part of France , that in none of the alluvial deposits , ancient or modern , are ...
... loess . In some parts of it , land shells occur . It has been ascertained by MM . Buteux , Ravin , and other observers conversant with the geology of this part of France , that in none of the alluvial deposits , ancient or modern , are ...
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Abbeville Acheul alluded alluvial alluvium Alpine Alps Amiens ancient animals antiquity Aurignac basin beds boulder clay British bronze cave caverns century chalk CHAP cliffs climate containing Crag Danish Darwin deposits depth elephant Elephas antiquus elevation erratic blocks Europe existence EXTINCT GLACIERS extinct mammalia fauna feet thick flint implements flint tools floating ice flora fluviatile formation formed fossil fragments freshwater genera geographical geological geologists glacial period glaciers Glen Roy gravel Greenland height hippopotamus human bones hyæna islands Jura lake LAKE-DWELLINGS land Liége living species loam loess lower mammalia mammoth marine shells mastodon miles Miocene Möen moraines mountains Mundesley Natchez Neanderthal observed occur origin peat physical geography plants pliocene post-pliocene period present Professor quadrupeds race recent region remains Rhine rhinoceros river rocks sand Scotland skeleton skull Somme stone period strata stratified submergence supposed surface Switzerland tertiary theory valley
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417 페이지 - I have stated in the first chapter, that at whatever age a variation first appears in the parent, it tends to re-appear at a corresponding age in the offspring. Certain variations can only appear at corresponding . ages ; for instance, peculiarities in the caterpillar, cocoon, or imago states of the silk-moth : or, again, in the full-grown horns of 'cattle.
189 페이지 - Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. ' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside — The journey hence is long...
507 페이지 - ... may have cleared at one bound the space which separated the highest stage of the unprogressive intelligence of the inferior animals from the first and lowest form of improvable reason manifested by Man...
470 페이지 - Man is man only by means of speech ; but, in order to invent speech, he must be already man.
9 페이지 - Scotch fir was afterwards supplanted by the sessile variety of the common oak, of which many prostrate trunks occur in the peat at higher levels than the pines ; and still higher the pedunculated variety of the same oak (Quwcus Robur L.) occurs with the alder, birch (Betula verrucosa Ehrh.), and hazel.
2 페이지 - Falconer, of the Brixham Cave, must, I think, have prepared you to admit that scepticism in regard to the cave-evidence in favour of the antiquity of man had previously been pushed to an extreme.
412 페이지 - ... community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, and not some unknown plan of creation, or the enunciation of general propositions, and the mere putting together and separating objects more or less alike.
68 페이지 - Engis cave,12 where the best-preserved human skulls were found; and, after thus gaining access to the first subterranean gallery, to creep on all fours through a contracted passage leading to larger chambers, there to superintend by torchlight...
496 페이지 - This argues strongly in favour of the existence in every animal of an immaterial principle similar to that which by its excellence and superior endowments places man so much above animals...
499 페이지 - Most of the arguments of philosophy in favour of the immortality of man apply equally to the permanency of this principle in other living beings.