On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which... A Primer of Darwinism and Organic Evolution - Page 28by Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1890 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1879 - 614 pages
...Huxley, who, in 1878, wrote in the JSiicyclopœdia. Jîritannica : -'On the evidence of pal ¡eon tology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." * •' Paleontology and Evolution." See ! page 21, infra, where... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Culture - 1881 - 372 pages
...from the Triassic epoch to the present day, have been demonstrated. On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion. XII. THE COMING OF AGE OF "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES." MANY of you will... | |
| George John Romanes - Evolution - 1882 - 106 pages
...Professor Huxley, who, in 1878, wrote in the Encyclopaedia Britannica : " On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." III. THE ARGUMENT FROM GEOLOGY. BUT this allusion to fossils leads... | |
| George John Romanes - Evolution - 1882 - 104 pages
...Professor Huxley, who, in 1878, wrote in the Encyclopedia Britannica : " On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." III. THE ARGUMENT FROM GEOLOGY. BUT this allusion to fossils leads... | |
| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1882 - 536 pages
...that " the causes and conditions of variation have yet to be thoroughly explored." Again, he says, " the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, it is an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors" — in other words,... | |
| Andrew Wilson - Evidence - 1883 - 444 pages
...OF ANOPLOTHRRIUM. of such a demonstration that Huxley writes : " On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only," he adds, " the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open... | |
| Andrew Wilson - Evidence - 1883 - 408 pages
...from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only," he adds, " the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." But not merely in the highest class of the animal world have "... | |
| Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 266 pages
...of animals and plants to vary. How sudden and profound such variations may sometimes be is shown by cases like that of certain brine-shrimps, to which...evolution is due that is still open to discussion."! I shall in the next chapter endeavor to explain some of the most important opinions that are held concerning... | |
| Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 266 pages
...of animals and plants to vary. How sudden and profound such variations may sometimes be is shown by cases like that of certain brine-shrimps, to which...which that evolution is due that is still open to discussion."1 I shall in the next chapter endeavor to explain some of the most important opinions that... | |
| Jan Helenus Ferguson - International law - 1884 - 558 pages
...a hypothesis, and it is with truth that Professor Huxley said on the evidence of palaeontology : " the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1S~S). t PROF. OSCAB SCHMIDT. The Doctrine... | |
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