 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 120 páginas
...size — of such species, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable «f the 'Oak and the Reed;' the smaller and feebler animals...species should become extinct appears, from the abundant evidence of the fact of extinction, to be a law of their existence; whether, however, it be inherent... | |
 | 1859 - 532 páginas
...families formerly existed, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such epecies, but is the result of circumstances which may be illustrated...animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species." No doubt the type form of any species is that which is best... | |
 | 1859 - 552 páginas
...formerly existed, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species, hut is tha result of circumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of the ' Oak and the Kced;' the smaller and feebler animals huve bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have... | |
 | 1859 - 478 páginas
...of such species, but is the result of cireumstances which may be illustrated by the fable of tho ' Oak and the Reed ; ' the smaller and feebler animals have bent and aecommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species." No doubt the type-form... | |
 | 1860 - 966 páginas
...families formerly existed, is not the consequence of degeneration— of any gradual diminution of the si/e of such species — but is the result of circumstances,...changes to which the larger species have succumbed, "f The causes operative in the extinction of species are thus summed up : — " That their limitation... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1861 - 552 páginas
...Small quadrupeds are more prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the Mastodons, Megatheres, Glyptodons, and Diprotodons are uniparous. The actual...the fable of the "oak and the reed ;" the smaller animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes to which the larger species have succumbed.... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1861 - 490 páginas
...prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the Mastodons, Megatheres, Glyptodons, and Uiprotodons are uniparous. The actual presence, therefore, of...the fable of the " oak and the reed ;" the smaller animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes to which the larger species have succumbed.... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1862 - 470 páginas
...families formerly existed, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of size of such species The smaller and feebler animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes, which have destroyed the larger species."—Zool. Trans, iv., p. 15. (431.) Bone Caves and Osseous... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1866 - 704 páginas
...countries where larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species,...animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species. They have fared better in the ' battle of life.' Accepting... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1866 - 700 páginas
...countries where larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species,...animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species. They have fared better in the ' battle of life.' Accepting... | |
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... 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 to which... 
