Nature, Volume 11Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1874 - Electronic journals |
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... theory of evolution , not on its scientific merits , but because it seems to them to support some theological or ... theories laid cut and dried before them , they will be learning a bad lesson in biology . If they happen to have one set ...
... theory of evolution , not on its scientific merits , but because it seems to them to support some theological or ... theories laid cut and dried before them , they will be learning a bad lesson in biology . If they happen to have one set ...
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... theory which was put forth in his valuable work on " Calcareous Sponges ; " and there he discusses the homologies of the secondary germ - layers . To it we may refer the English reader as an exposition of this part of the subject , and ...
... theory which was put forth in his valuable work on " Calcareous Sponges ; " and there he discusses the homologies of the secondary germ - layers . To it we may refer the English reader as an exposition of this part of the subject , and ...
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... theory of evolution itself is neither so certain nor so complete as persons who take their knowledge from these lectures alone would be led to suppose . Our author is astonished at Rütimeyer's com- parison of " Darwinism " to a religion ...
... theory of evolution itself is neither so certain nor so complete as persons who take their knowledge from these lectures alone would be led to suppose . Our author is astonished at Rütimeyer's com- parison of " Darwinism " to a religion ...
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... theory . English Government Transit of Venus Expedition in Egypt . He THE Khedive of Egypt has given his cordial support to the has furnished the principal station on Mokattam Heights , 600 ft . above Cairo , with tents , a guard , and ...
... theory . English Government Transit of Venus Expedition in Egypt . He THE Khedive of Egypt has given his cordial support to the has furnished the principal station on Mokattam Heights , 600 ft . above Cairo , with tents , a guard , and ...
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... theory , by M. Faye . The theory commented upon supposes that comets owe their movements in part to the attrac- tive force of the sun and in part to the evolution of gases from the surface of the comet by the action of the sun's heat ...
... theory , by M. Faye . The theory commented upon supposes that comets owe their movements in part to the attrac- tive force of the sun and in part to the evolution of gases from the surface of the comet by the action of the sun's heat ...
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