Category: Science - Biology
The address I delivered on August 26 at the Fourth International Congress of Zoology at Cambridge, 'On our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man,' has, I find, from the high significance of the theme and the general importance of the questions connected with it, excited much...
The address I delivered on August 26 at the Fourth International Congress of Zoology at Cambridge, 'On our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man,' has, I find, from the high s...
2. Part 2The more important points are the following: The remains in question rested upon a conglomerate which lies upon a bed of marine marl and sand of Pliocene age. Together with the...
3. Part 31. The most remote ancestors of all living organisms were living beings of the simplest imaginable kind, organisms without organs, like the still existing _Monera_. Each consist...
4. Part 422. Stage of _Simiæ_. Orbit completely separated from the temporal fossa by an inward extension of the frontal and malar bones meeting the alisphenoid. Placenta consolidated int...
5. Part 5'In pathology, strictly so called, his two great achievements--the detection of the cellular activity which lies at the bottom of all morbid as well as normal physiological proc...
6. Part 6The inheritance of acquired characters becomes very obvious in the following example: The Monera are the lowest living organisms known; they consist of a mass of protoplasm, and...
7. Part 7On the other hand, there are many instances of extremely slow development--facts which raise the difficult question of 'persistent types.' Are these due to a state of perfection...