Comparison with 1872 |
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the several successive palæozoic formations of Russia, Western
Europe, Europe, 1866 1869 1872 | Europe 1859 1860 1861 |
and North America, a similar parallelism in the forms of life has been observed by several
authors; authors; 1872 | authors: 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
so it is, according to Lyell, with the
....... 1872 | several 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
European and North American tertiary deposits. Even if the few fossil species which are common to the Old and New Worlds
were were 1869 1872 | be 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
kept wholly out of view, the general parallelism in the successive forms of life, in the
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stages of the widely separated 1859 1860 |
stages of the 1861 1866 |
palæozoic and tertiary
stages, stages, 1869 1872 | periods, 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
would still be manifest, and the several formations could be easily correlated. |
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These observations, however, relate to the marine inhabitants of
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distant parts of 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
the world: we have not sufficient data to judge whether the productions of the land and of fresh water
at distant points change at distant points change 1869 1872 |
change at distant points 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
in the same parallel manner. We may doubt whether they have thus changed: if the Megatherium, Mylodon, Macrauchenia, and Toxodon had been brought to Europe from La Plata, without any information in regard to their geological position, no one would have suspected that they had coexisted
with
sea-shells all still living; sea-shells all still living; 1869 1872 |
still living sea-shells; 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
but as these anomalous monsters coexisted
with the Masto- don
and Horse, it might at least have been inferred that they had lived during one of the latter
tertiary stages. |
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When the marine forms of life are spoken of as
having changed simultaneously throughout the world, it must not be supposed that this expression relates to the same
year, year, 1872 | thousandth 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
or
to the same century, to the same century, 1872 |
hundred-thousandth year, 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
ten-thousandth year, 1869 |
or even that it has a very strict geological sense; for if all the marine animals
now living now living 1869 1872 |
which live at the present day 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
in Europe, and all those that lived in Europe during the pleistocene period
(a very (a very 1869 1872 | (an enormously 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
remote period as measured by years, including the whole glacial
epoch) epoch) 1869 1872 | epoch), 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
were
....... 1869 1872 | to be 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
compared with those now
existing existing 1869 1872 | living 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
in South
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the several successive palæozoic formations of Russia, Western
Europe Europe 1859 1860 1861 | Europe, 1866 1869 1872 |
and North America, a similar parallelism in the forms of life has been observed by several
authors: authors: 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | authors; 1872 |
so it is, according to Lyell, with the
several several 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | several 1872 |
European and North American tertiary deposits. Even if the few fossil species which are common to the Old and New Worlds
be be 1859 1860 1861 1866 | were 1869 1872 |
kept wholly out of view, the general parallelism in the successive forms of life, in the
stages of the stages of the 1861 1866 |
stages of the widely separated 1859 1860 |
OMIT 1869 1872 |
palæozoic and
tertiary tertiary 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872 |
of the tertiary 1866 |
periods, periods, 1859 1860 1861 1866 | stages, 1869 1872 |
would still be manifest, and the several formations could be easily correlated. |
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These observations, however, relate to the marine inhabitants of
distant parts of distant parts of 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
OMIT 1869 1872 |
the world: we have not sufficient data to judge whether the productions of the land and of fresh water
change at distant points change at distant points 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
at distant points change 1869 1872 |
in the same parallel manner. We may doubt whether they have thus changed: if the Megatherium, Mylodon, Macrauchenia, and Toxodon had been brought to Europe from La Plata, without any information in regard to their geological position, no one would have suspected that they had
co-existed co-existed 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872 | coexisted 1859 |
with
still living sea-shells; still living sea-shells; 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
sea-shells all still living; 1869 1872 |
but as these anomalous monsters
co-existed co-existed 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872 | coexisted 1859 |
with the
Mastodon Mastodon 1861 1866 1869 1872 | Masto- don 1859 1860 |
and Horse, it might at least have been inferred that they had lived during one of the
later later 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872 | latter 1859 |
tertiary stages. |
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When the marine forms of life are spoken of
as as 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872 | us 1866 |
having changed simultaneously throughout the world, it must not be supposed that this expression relates to the same
thousandth thousandth 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 | year, 1872 |
or
hundred-thousandth year, hundred-thousandth year, 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
ten-thousandth year, 1869 |
to the same century, 1872 |
or even that it has a very strict geological sense; for if all the marine animals
which live at the present day which live at the present day 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
now living 1869 1872 |
in Europe, and all those that lived in Europe during the pleistocene period
(an enormously (an enormously 1859 1860 1861 1866 | (a very 1869 1872 |
remote period as measured by years, including the whole glacial
epoch), epoch), 1859 1860 1861 1866 | epoch) 1869 1872 |
were
to be to be 1859 1860 1861 1866 | to be 1869 1872 |
compared with those now
living living 1859 1860 1861 1866 | existing 1869 1872 |
in South
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