 Another great want consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all species of animals. Thus the nose of the swine has become hard for the purpose of turning up the soil in search of insects and of roots. The trunk of the...  Zoonomia - Page 396by Erasmus Darwin - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1848 - 388 pages
...ip 499. Again he continues, even yet more adventurously : — " Another great want felt by animals consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all species. Thus, the nose of the swine has become hard for the purpose of turning up the soil in search of insects... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1857 - 544 pages
...p. 499. Again he continues, even yet more adventurously : — " Another great want felt by animals consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all species. Thus, the nose of the swine has become hard for the purpose of turning up the soil in search of insects... | |
 | Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...contest amongst the males seems to be, that the " strongest and most active animal should pro" pagate the species, which should thence become " improved....insects and of roots. The trunk of the " elephant is an elongation of the nose for the '* purpose of pulling down the branches of " trees for his food,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...error into which his grandson has fallen more disastrously. " Another great want," he continues, " consists in the means of procuring food, which has...of insects and of roots. The trunk of the elephant is an elongation of the nose for the purpose of pulling down the branches of trees for his food, and... | |
 | Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...contest amongst the males seems to be, that the " strongest and most active animal should pro" pagate the species, which should thence become " improved....means " of procuring food, which has diversified the <l forms of all species of animals. Thus the " nose of the swine has become hard for the " purpose... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - Natural history - 1886 - 344 pages
...because the females of these species are without this armour. The final cause of this contest among the males seems to be, that the strongest and most...of insects and of roots. The trunk of the elephant is an elongation of the nose for the purpose of pulling down the branches of trees for his food, and... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 224 pages
...possession of the female ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . The final cause of this contest amongst the males...has diversified the forms of all species of animals. . . . All which seem to have been gradually produced during many generations by the Geoffroy Saint... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - Biology - 1901 - 486 pages
...which are more or less thus produced and propagated." * 6. The means of procuring food has, he says, " diversified the forms of all species of animals. Thus...of insects and of roots. The trunk of the elephant is an elongation of the nose for the purpose of pulling down the branches of trees for his food, and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 426 pages
...error into which his grandson has fallen more disastrously. " Another great want," he continues, " consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all species or animals. Thus the nose of the swine has become hard for the purpose of turning up the soil in search... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - Science - 1981 - 360 pages
...spurs for the purpose of fighting for the exclusive possession of the females, as cocks and quails. lt is certain that these weapons are not provided for...purpose of turning up the soil in search of insects and roots. The trunk of the elephant is an elongation of the nose for the purpose of pulling down the branches... | |
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