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Been Quotes by Charles Lyell
- Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from,…
- Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the…
- Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in…
- It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are…
- No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no…
- That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of…
- In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori…
- So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population…
- In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect…
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