The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManJ. Murray, 1863 - 528 σελίδες |
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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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Σελίδα 417 - 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.
Σελίδα 189 - 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...
Σελίδα 507 - ... 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...
Σελίδα 470 - Man is man only by means of speech ; but, in order to invent speech, he must be already man.
Σελίδα 9 - 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.
Σελίδα 2 - 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.
Σελίδα 412 - ... 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.
Σελίδα 68 - 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...
Σελίδα 496 - 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...
Σελίδα 499 - 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.