The geological evidences of the antiquity of man |
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Abbeville Acheul alluded alluvial alluvium Alps Amiens ancient animals antiquity Aurignac basin beds belong Boucher de Perthes boulder clay British bronze cave caverns centuries chalk channel CHAP cliffs containing Crag CRANNOGES Cyrena Danish delta deposits depth drift Elephas antiquus elevation embedded Engis Europe extinct mammalia fauna feet thick flint hatchets flint implements flint tools fluviatile formation formed fossil fragments France freshwater geological geologist glacial period glaciers Glen Roy gravel height hippopotamus human bones hyæna inches inhabiting lake lake-dwellings land Lartet layer Liége limestone living species loam loess lower mammalia mammoth marine shells Menchecourt miles moraines mounds Natchez Neanderthal observed occur origin peat pliocene post-pliocene period present Prestwich primigenius Professor quadrupeds race recent region remains rhinoceros river rocks sand Schmerling seen skull Somme stalagmite stone period strata stratified submergence supposed surface Switzerland tertiary Thames tributaries upheaval valley wild
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Seite 19 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Seite 466 - Man is man only by means of speech ; but, in order to invent speech, he must be already man.
Seite 413 - I have stated in the first chapter, that at whatever age a variation first appears in the parent, it tends to re-appear at a corresponding age in the offspring. Certain variations can only appear at corresponding . ages ; for instance, peculiarities in the caterpillar, cocoon, or imago states of the silk-moth : or, again, in the full-grown horns of 'cattle.
Seite 19 - THERESA) Friends and Contemporaries of the Lord Chancellor Clarendon, illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery. With a Descriptive Account of the Pictures, and Origin of the Collection.
Seite 192 - But if the fossil memorials have been correctly interpreted — if we have here before us at the northern base of the Pyrenees a sepulchral vault with skeletons of human beings, consigned by friends and relatives to their last resting-place — if we have also at the portal of the tomb the relics of funeral feasts, and within it indications of viands destined for the use of the departed on their way to a land of spirits ; while among the funeral gifts are weapons wherewith in other fields to chase...
Seite 4 - BUNBURY'S (CJF) Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and Native Tribes of the Country.
Seite 6 - In 1839 I proposed the term Pleistocene as an abbreviation for Newer Pliocene, and it soon became popular, having been adopted by the late Edward Forbes in his admirable essay on " The Geological Relations of the existing Fauna and Flora of the British Isles...
Seite 375 - We see in our own times that the rate of progress in the arts and sciences proceeds in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases, and so, when we carry back our retrospect into the past, we must be prepared to find the signs of retardation augmenting in a like geometrical ratio; so that the progress of a thousand years at a remote period may correspond to that of a century in modern times, and in ages still more remote Man would more and more resemble the brutes in that attribute which causes one...
Seite 2 - Falconer, of the Brixham Cave, must, I think, have prepared you to admit that scepticism in regard to the cave-evidence in favour of the antiquity of man had previously been pushed to an extreme.
Seite 410 - ... community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, and not some unknown plan of creation, or the enunciation of general propositions, and the mere putting together and separating objects more or less alike.