Excerpt: ...subject to modifying influences. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue, until ultimately the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded. They can show, too, that the changes daily taking place in ...
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Excerpt: ...subject to modifying influences. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue, until ultimately the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded. They can show, too, that the changes daily taking place in ourselves
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Seller's Description:
8vo, pp. vi, 330. Bibliography, index. Frontis portrait. Ochre cloth. [Makers of the nineteenth century. ] Owner's bookplate on pastedown, one hinge tender o/w VG.
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Fine. No DJ as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall FINE unread hard cover reprint of original 1917 Constable & Co., Ltd edition. Three small (1/8") spots at text block top edge. No DJ, as issued.
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1st Greenwood printing. Originally published in 1917 by Connolly & Co. 330 pp. Fine hardcover in green cloth (no markings) / No dust jacket as issued. A clean, solid copy.
