The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManJ. Murray, 1863 - 528페이지 |
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... lower Country required to explain the Formation and Denudation of the Loess - More rapid Movement of the inland Country— The same Depression and Upheaval might account for the Advance and Retreat of the Alpine Glaciers — Himalayan Mud ...
... lower Country required to explain the Formation and Denudation of the Loess - More rapid Movement of the inland Country— The same Depression and Upheaval might account for the Advance and Retreat of the Alpine Glaciers — Himalayan Mud ...
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... lower Animals compared to the Intellect and Reason of Man - Grounds on which Man has been referred to a distinct Kingdom of Nature - Immaterial Principle common to Man and Animals - Non - discovery of intermediate Links among Fossil ...
... lower Animals compared to the Intellect and Reason of Man - Grounds on which Man has been referred to a distinct Kingdom of Nature - Immaterial Principle common to Man and Animals - Non - discovery of intermediate Links among Fossil ...
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... Lower , Middle , and Upper ; the Lower comprising the oldest formations of the environs of Paris and London , with others of like age ; the Middle , those of Bordeaux and Touraine ; and the Upper , all that lay above or were newer than ...
... Lower , Middle , and Upper ; the Lower comprising the oldest formations of the environs of Paris and London , with others of like age ; the Middle , those of Bordeaux and Touraine ; and the Upper , all that lay above or were newer than ...
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... lower tertiary strata , there were about 3 per cent . identical with recent ; in the middle tertiary ( the faluns of the Loire and Gironde ) , about 17 per cent . ; and in the upper tertiary , from 35 to 50 , and sometimes in the most ...
... lower tertiary strata , there were about 3 per cent . identical with recent ; in the middle tertiary ( the faluns of the Loire and Gironde ) , about 17 per cent . ; and in the upper tertiary , from 35 to 50 , and sometimes in the most ...
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... Lower Post - pliocene , the Upper Post- pliocene formations being called ' Recent . ' Cases will occur where it may be scarcely possible to draw the line of demarcation between the Newer Pliocene and Post- pliocene , or between the ...
... Lower Post - pliocene , the Upper Post- pliocene formations being called ' Recent . ' Cases will occur where it may be scarcely possible to draw the line of demarcation between the Newer Pliocene and Post- pliocene , or between the ...
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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.