The history of creation; or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular

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Title: The history of creation; or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929 Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919. Natürliche schopfungsgeschichte English
Subjects: Evolution Heredity Human beings
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ble series of facts in a very ablemanner. The common primary form of all Crabs, which in mostcases is even now the first to develop out of the egg, isoriginally one and the same, the so-called Nauplius Thisremarkable primsBval crab represents a very simple form ofarticulated animal, the body of which in general has theform of a roundish, oval, or pear-shaped disc, and has on itsventral side only three pairs of legs. The first of these isuncloven, the two subsequent pairs are forked. In front,above the mouth, lies a simple, single eye. Although thediflferent orders of the Crustacean class diflier very widelyfrom one another in the structure of their body and itsappendages, yet the early Nauplius form always remainsessentially the same. In order to be convinced of this, letthe reader look attentively at Plates X. and XL, a more de-tailed explanation of which is given in the Appendix OnPlate XI. we see the fully developed representatives of six FIX. JSazipUus-lSu^-form, of sir Crab-fish.
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