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L'ancienneté de l'homme prouvée par la géologie et remarques sur les théories relatives ŕ l'origine des espčce par variation... traduit avec le consentement et le concours de l'auteur par M. Chaper.
Paris, Bailličre, 1864. - (21,5 x 13,5 cm). XVI, 558 S. Mit 58 Textholzschnitten und 2 Tafeln in Holzschnitt. Halbpergamentband um 1900.
Erste französische Aufgabe. - "In the 'Antiquity of man' Lyell discussed the state of knowledge concerning the prehistory of man, including the discovery of stone tools, the definition of the Bronze and Stone ages, the shell mounds of Denmark, and the Swiss lake dwellings. He gave a particularly thorough account of the discovery in 1857 of the skeleton of a man in a cave at Neanderthal, Germany, because the skull of the Neanderthal man, although unquestionably human, showed heavy eyebrow ridges like those of apes. In considering the origin of man, Lyell argued that if all races of man were descended from a common ancestry, as he believed they were, then it would have required a very long period of time for the gradual formation of such distinct races as the Caucasian, Mongolian and Negro. If the different races of man were descended from a common ancestry, however, Lyell thought it equally probable that closely related species of animals and plants were likewise descended from a common parentage... Lyell described Darwin's and Wallace's theory of the indefinite modification of species by natural selection and gave a brief abstract of some of Darwin's arguments in the 'Origin of Species'. He accepted Darwin's theory as providing a clear explanation of many biological and geological phenomena previously puzzling, but did not make any declaration of his own adherence to the theory" (DSB). - Vorsatz mit Besitzvermerk von alter Hand. Schmutztitel mit kleinem hinterlegtem Randausriss, sonst nahezu fleckenfrei und gut erhalten. - DSB 8, 563
L'ancienneté de l'homme prouvée par la géologie et remarques sur les théories relatives ŕ l'origine des espčce par variation... traduit avec le consentement et le concours de l'auteur par M. Chaper.
Paris, Bailličre, 1864. - (21,5 x 13,5 cm). XVI, 558 S. Mit 58 Textholzschnitten und 2 Tafeln in Holzschnitt. Halbpergamentband um 1900.
Erste französische Aufgabe. - "In the 'Antiquity of man' Lyell discussed the state of knowledge concerning the prehistory of man, including the discovery of stone tools, the definition of the Bronze and Stone ages, the shell mounds of Denmark, and the Swiss lake dwellings. He gave a particularly thorough account of the discovery in 1857 of the skeleton of a man in a cave at Neanderthal, Germany, because the skull of the Neanderthal man, although unquestionably human, showed heavy eyebrow ridges like those of apes. In considering the origin of man, Lyell argued that if all races of man were descended from a common ancestry, as he believed they were, then it would have required a very long period of time for the gradual formation of such distinct races as the Caucasian, Mongolian and Negro. If the different races of man were descended from a common ancestry, however, Lyell thought it equally probable that closely related species of animals and plants were likewise descended from a common parentage... Lyell described Darwin's and Wallace's theory of the indefinite modification of species by natural selection and gave a brief abstract of some of Darwin's arguments in the 'Origin of Species'. He accepted Darwin's theory as providing a clear explanation of many biological and geological phenomena previously puzzling, but did not make any declaration of his own adherence to the theory" (DSB). - Vorsatz mit Besitzvermerk von alter Hand. Schmutztitel mit kleinem hinterlegtem Randausriss, sonst nahezu fleckenfrei und gut erhalten. - DSB 8, 563
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