Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of EssaysMacmillan, 1871 - 384 من الصفحات Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from more advanced mammals. This led to his theory of natural selection, which he presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 with Charles Darwin. This volume reprints those papers presented to the Linnean Society. |
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... tree , as the best mode of representing the natural arrange- ment of species and their successive creation , let us suppose that at an early geological epoch any group ( say a class of the Mollusca ) has attained to a great richness of ...
... tree , as the best mode of representing the natural arrange- ment of species and their successive creation , let us suppose that at an early geological epoch any group ( say a class of the Mollusca ) has attained to a great richness of ...
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... trees , brush- wood , nor even undulation of the surface afford the slightest protection to its foes , a modification of colour which shall be assimilated to that of the surround- ing country , is absolutely necessary . Hence without ...
... trees , brush- wood , nor even undulation of the surface afford the slightest protection to its foes , a modification of colour which shall be assimilated to that of the surround- ing country , is absolutely necessary . Hence without ...
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... trees as to catch small birds among the branches . So also the woodchuck of Canada has a dark - brown fur ; but then it lives in burrows and frequents river banks , catching fish and small animals that live in or near the water . Among ...
... trees as to catch small birds among the branches . So also the woodchuck of Canada has a dark - brown fur ; but then it lives in burrows and frequents river banks , catching fish and small animals that live in or near the water . Among ...
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... tree while waiting for his prey to pass beneath as to be hardly distinguishable from the bark . Among birds , the ... trees , it is almost impossible to detect it . In snipes the colours are modified so as to be equally in harmony ...
... tree while waiting for his prey to pass beneath as to be hardly distinguishable from the bark . Among birds , the ... trees , it is almost impossible to detect it . In snipes the colours are modified so as to be equally in harmony ...
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... trees in the tropics , are of such curiously marbled colours as to match exactly with the bark they rest upon . In every part of the tropics there are tree - snakes that twist among boughs and shrubs , or lie coiled up on the dense ...
... trees in the tropics , are of such curiously marbled colours as to match exactly with the bark they rest upon . In every part of the tropics there are tree - snakes that twist among boughs and shrubs , or lie coiled up on the dense ...
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