On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower AnimalsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 135 من الصفحات |
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... Aristotle onwards , observers and philosophers have accumulated facts and multiplied speculation on the causes of longevity : the field is a well - trodden one , and for many years to come any increased knowledge of it must be looked ...
... Aristotle onwards , observers and philosophers have accumulated facts and multiplied speculation on the causes of longevity : the field is a well - trodden one , and for many years to come any increased knowledge of it must be looked ...
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... Aristotle , Bacon , and Haller , have incidentally given expression to opinion as to the causes of the varied tenure of life of organisms ; but naturally the later writers have had a larger number of facts to deal with , and have been ...
... Aristotle , Bacon , and Haller , have incidentally given expression to opinion as to the causes of the varied tenure of life of organisms ; but naturally the later writers have had a larger number of facts to deal with , and have been ...
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... ( Aristotle . ) 500 years . ( Sunt qui . ) At 30 years the epiphyses were not joined . ( ' Philos . Trans . ' Everard Home . ) Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus , 70-80 years . ( Grindon . ) Horse , 25 years . ( Flourens . ) But the Bishop of ...
... ( Aristotle . ) 500 years . ( Sunt qui . ) At 30 years the epiphyses were not joined . ( ' Philos . Trans . ' Everard Home . ) Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus , 70-80 years . ( Grindon . ) Horse , 25 years . ( Flourens . ) But the Bishop of ...
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... Aristotle remarks , in the History of Animals , ' lib . vi . ch . xxix , ' What is related of the longevity of the stag rests upon no foundation : the duration of gestation and growth of the young stag indicates anything but a long life ...
... Aristotle remarks , in the History of Animals , ' lib . vi . ch . xxix , ' What is related of the longevity of the stag rests upon no foundation : the duration of gestation and growth of the young stag indicates anything but a long life ...
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... Aristotle noted well touching the generation of birds ( but he transferred it ill to other living crea- tures ) , that the seed of the male confers less to gene- ration than the female , but that it rather affords activity than matter ...
... Aristotle noted well touching the generation of birds ( but he transferred it ill to other living crea- tures ) , that the seed of the male confers less to gene- ration than the female , but that it rather affords activity than matter ...
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abnormal absolute potential longevity accessibility of food Actinozoa amongst Annelids appears Aristotle asexual average longevity Bacon birds Buffon bulk cæteris paribus causes character civilized classes Comparative Longevity creature Crown 8vo Crustacea Darwin death diminished disease duration English enquiry essay Extra fcap F. T. PALGRAVE facts Farr favours Longevity Fcap fertility fish Flourens forms Fuegian gemmules Genesis germinal matter gevity greater Grindon growth hence Herbert Spencer hereditary high evolution high individuation Hufeland Hydrozoa increased influence insects known length less life-tables limit living matter long livers long-lived longer lived males ments Mollusca mortality natural decay Neison nutriment observed old age organisms ovum period personal expenditure plants POEMS potential longevity Probable after-lifetime PROTOPHYTA Protozoa quantity races regard relation reproduction Reptiles Rotifer Rotifera seen shew Spencer statements statistics structure supposed term terrestrial Terrestrial animals tertiary aggregation tion various Vertebrata whilst writer young
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