 | 1902 - 642 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller animals are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. ' The actual presence, therefore, of small species of...families formerly existed is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species, but is the result of circumstances which may be... | |
 | 1851 - 438 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller quadrupeds are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. The actual presence, therefore, of small species of animals in countries where the larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual... | |
 | 1851 - 450 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller quadrupeds are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. The actual presence, therefore, of small species of animals in countries where the larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual... | |
 | 1851 - 1248 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller quadrupeds are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. The actual presence therefore of small species of animals in countries where the larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller quadrupeds are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. The actual presence, therefore, of small species of animals, in countries where the larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 450 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller quadrupeds are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. The actual presence therefore of small species of animals in countries where the larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 438 pages
...conceal themselves and escape. Smaller quadrupeds are usually, also, more prolific than larger ones. The actual presence therefore of small species of animals in countries where the larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not to be ascribed to any gradual... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 120 pages
...quadrupeds, moreover, are more prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the mastodons, megatheria, glyptodons, and diprotodons, are uniparous. The actual...circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable «f the 'Oak and the Reed;' the smaller and feebler animals have bent and accommodated themselves to... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 118 pages
...quadrupeds, moreover, are more prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the mastodons, megatheria, glyptodons, and diprotodons, are uniparous. The actual...families formerly existed, is not the consequence of degeneration—of any gradual diminution of the size—of such species, but is the result of circumstances... | |
 | 1859 - 554 pages
...quadrupeds, moreover, are more prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the mastodons, megatheria, glyptodons, and diprotodons, are uniparous. The actual...families formerly existed, is not the consequence of degeneration—of any gradual diminution of the size of such species, but is the result of circumstances... | |
| |
... of any gradual diminution of the size of such species, but is the result of circumstances, which may be illustrated by the fable of the ' Oak and the Reed ; ' the smaller and feebler animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have... 
