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" This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth and their disappearance from it than any other class of facts. "
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter - Page 365
by Charles Darwin - 1887 - 395 pages
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Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of ..., Volumes 1-2

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and numerous South American gnawers and monkeys, and other animals. This wonderful relationship in the same continent...disappearance from it, than any other class of facts. how a large quadruped could so lately have subsisted, in lat. 49° 15', on these wretched gravel plains,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this " law of the succession of types," — on " this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living." Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalisation to the mammals of the Old World. We...
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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this ' law of the succession of types/—on ' this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living.' Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this " law of the succession of types," — on " this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living." Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalisation to the mammals of the Old World. We...
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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 506 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this ' law of the succession of types,' — on ' this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living.' Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

American literature - 1883 - 990 pages
...those of the cavedeposits of Australia to the marsupials of that country ; and he thereon remarks : " This wonderful relationship in the same continent...disappearance from it, than any other class of facts." He also saw, at this early period, the important fact that there is some great and constant check to...
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Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy: Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with ...

John Fiske - Cosmology - 1874 - 522 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, "that T strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living. Prof. Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see...
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Outlines of cosmic philosophy, based on the doctrine of evolution ..., Volume 1

John Fiske - 1874 - 496 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, "that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living. Prof. Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see...
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Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, Volume 1

John Fiske - Evolution - 1875 - 496 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, "that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1815, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living. Prof. Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see...
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Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries ...

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and numerous Soutli American gnawers and monkeys, and other animals. This wonderful relationship in the same continent...o.ur earth, and their disappearance from it, than any oAer class of facts. It is impossible to reflect on the changed state of the American continent without...
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