 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1914 - 926 páginas
...1794? I quote from an edition of 1800. " A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females...acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. ... So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 402 páginas
...those of lust, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females...species who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tusks for other purposes except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So... | |
 | Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 páginas
...those of lust, hunger, and security. " A great want of one part of the animal " world has consisted in the desire of the " exclusive possession of the females...skin on the " shoulder of the boar is a defence only u against animals of his own species, who " strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tushes " for other... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1882 - 488 páginas
...those of lust, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females...thick, shieldlike, horny skin on the shoulder of the boat- is a defence only against animals of his own species who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1886 - 344 páginas
...those of love, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females...species, who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tusks for other purposes, except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 páginas
...one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the female ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be that the strongest and most active... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1901 - 486 páginas
...the head of desire he dwells on the desire of the male for the exclusive possession of the female; and "these have acquired weapons to combat each other...purpose," as the very thick, shield-like horny skin on the shoulders of the boar, and his tusks, the horns of the stag, the spurs of cocks and quails. " The final... | |
 | Arthur Dendy - 1912 - 478 páginas
...illustrious grandson of the writer : — " A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females...acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 páginas
...those of luSt, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females;...species who Strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tusks for other purposes except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So... | |
 | George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - 1987 - 372 páginas
...the direct result of sexual selection: A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females; and these have acquired weapons to bombard each other for this purpose, as the very thick, shield-like, horny skin on the shoulder of... | |
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A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose... 
