The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... question on Natural Selection which occurred in the Tripos papers he could give no answer . By this time he had abandoned the idea of Holy Orders , perhaps on account of the opposition at home , perhaps because of the first beginnings ...
... question on Natural Selection which occurred in the Tripos papers he could give no answer . By this time he had abandoned the idea of Holy Orders , perhaps on account of the opposition at home , perhaps because of the first beginnings ...
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... creatures . Agassiz had maintained it did , others considered his deductions premature , and Huxley , in his ' Classification of Animals , ' summed up the much - debated question by saying that '. 16 1874- GEORGE JOHN ROMANES.
... creatures . Agassiz had maintained it did , others considered his deductions premature , and Huxley , in his ' Classification of Animals , ' summed up the much - debated question by saying that '. 16 1874- GEORGE JOHN ROMANES.
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... question , whether or not a nervous system , known to be present in all animals higher in the zoological scale , makes its first appearance in the Medusa , that Mr. Romanes entered upon a long series of physiological experi- ments ...
... question , whether or not a nervous system , known to be present in all animals higher in the zoological scale , makes its first appearance in the Medusa , that Mr. Romanes entered upon a long series of physiological experi- ments ...
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... questions of physiology relating to excita- bility and conduction , and it was a characteristic of Mr. Romanes that in all his work , of whatever kind , he was always searching for principles . The minutest detail never escaped his ...
... questions of physiology relating to excita- bility and conduction , and it was a characteristic of Mr. Romanes that in all his work , of whatever kind , he was always searching for principles . The minutest detail never escaped his ...
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... question of heredity , by supposing that there is a material connection between corporeal and germinal cells - i.e . by granting the existence of force - carriers , call them gemmules , or physiological units , or what we please ...
... question of heredity , by supposing that there is a material connection between corporeal and germinal cells - i.e . by granting the existence of force - carriers , call them gemmules , or physiological units , or what we please ...
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