The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals (Classic Reprint)

Thos. H. Montgomery

ISBN 10: 0282598332 / ISBN 13: 9780282598334

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2022

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Print on Demand. This book analyzes environmental distribution to determine racial descent. Its historical and descriptive approach shows changes in scientific thought, from earlier cataloguing of animals and plants, to examining environmental conditions and tracing evolutionary patterns. Notably, the author challenges the idea that marine life is the oldest, arguing that land life is more intricate and diverse, suggesting it may have originated first. The book's analysis of environmental modes of existence, such as marine, freshwater, land, and combinations of these, provides a new perspective on how different modes of life have shaped the evolution of species. The author contends that the study of environmental distribution is crucial to understanding the genesis and change of present physical conditions as well as racial descent. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0282598332
• ISBN 13: 9780282598334
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Evolutionary Biology

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Excerpt from The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals

The method should be to start with some small restricted group of diverse distribution, preferably one represented in different media and in manifold environments. The Am phibia, various Crustacean groups, Gasteropod Mol lases, Turbellaria, all these are examples that promise much. For a strictly terrestrial group sheds no light upon an aquatic one, nor one limited to the sea upon freshwater existence. By the careful analysis of what factors have brought about the present distribution in each of such various cases, there can gradually be reconstructed a com prehensive understanding of environmental factors and their relative importance, as well as a completer knowledge of transmutation. And, as is always the case when the method has been consistent and scientific, the factors of distribution and the meaning of it will ultimately be stated in very simple form. These factors appear to us now to be enormously complex, but this is because we have hardly commenced to analyze them. We have to study environ mental action and not geography.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.