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INDEX
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Psilophyton, figure showing | 162 |
reference to | 160 |
Pteridosperm, figure showing | 148 |
reference to | 147 |
Pterodactyls, features of | 260 |
Python, vestigial legs of | 36, 37 |
Quaternary period, events of | 161 |
Queen bee, figure of | 187 |
life and labors of | 189–191 |
Rabbit, vermiform appendix of | 43 |
Rabbit and hare, fertile hybrid produced by | 116 |
Racial development, comparison of, with individual development | 77 |
Rails, flying and flightless species of | 98–99 |
Radiation, adaptive, definitions of | 157, 330 |
Rallidae, flying and flightless species of | 98–99 |
Ray, John, species founded by | 114 |
Recapitulation theory, experimental demonstration of | 55–56 |
reference to | 18–19 |
sketch of | 68–75 |
statement of | 50 |
Record of the rocks, chapter on | 102–111 |
Religion, relations of evolution to | 77 |
Remane, cited | 290 |
Reptile, derivation of bird from | 242–254, 367–369 |
differences between mammal and | 285–286 |
evolution of | 284–285 |
evolutionary relations of bird to | 367 |
heart and circulation of | 245 |
links between mammal and | 286 |
relations of, to bird, as shown by blood tests | 367–369 |
Reptilian ancestry of birds, reference to | 243–254, 259–261, 367 |
Rhea, competency of, to survive | 99 |
Rhodesia, ancient skulls from | 136 |
Robertson, Janet, restoration of fern by | 148 |
Robinson, Alfred, figure reproduced from photograph by | 184 |
Rock movements caused by uplift and crumpling, examples of | 107–108 |
Rocks, record of, chapter on | 102–111 |
Romanes, G. J., figure cited from | 36 |
observations of the behaviour of monkeys by | 301–302 |
Royal jelly of bees, uses of | 190, 191 |
Rowe, A. W., studies of sea urchins by | 117–119 |
Russia, remains of theromorphs from | 282 |
St. Helena, peculiar animals of | 98 |
Salamanders, larva and embryo of | 55 |
Salamandra atra, nature of young of | 55 |
Salamandra maculosa, experiments with | 53 |
nature of young of | 55 |
Schuchert, Charles, cited | 120 |
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