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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
— Charles Lyell
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the…
— H. L. Mencken
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In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
— Unknown Author
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation…
— Roderick Murchison
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An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth…
— Seth Shostak
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened…
— Ambrose Bierce
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With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
— Anthony Storr
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There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk…
— Anthony Burgess
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God: a gaseous vertebrate.
— Aldous Huxley
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I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists…
— Greg Graffin
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The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or…
— August Krogh
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