With respect to the terrestrial productions which lived during the Secondary and Palaeozoic periods, it is superfluous to state that our evidence from fossil remains is fragmentary in an extreme degree.
If we admit that the geological record is imperfect in an extreme degree, then such facts as the record gives, support the theory of descent with modification.
In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.
The development of the naked, wattled skin over the nostrils and round the eyes varies in an extreme degree.
Here then we see these two bones modified to an extreme degree.
Certain trees have also been described as indifferently bearing peaches or nectarines, and this may be considered as bud-variation carried to an extreme degree.
The soft palate becomes relaxed and the uvula thickened and elongated, sometimes to an extreme degree.
In its more acute form gastric inflammation supervenes in the course of yellow fever; and what is observed here in anextreme degree exists in a minor degree in all the so-called malarious fevers.
A failure to recognize these things would have been absurd and ridiculous in an extreme degree.
The attack was determined; the defense obstinate; the fighting heroic; the result bloody in an extreme degree.
Several other states of mind appear to be at first exciting, but soon become depressing to an extreme degree.
A tortured man, as long as his sufferings allowed him to feel any dread for the future, would probably exhibit horror in an extreme degree.
The organ is then flabby, its substance pale gray or brownish, either wholly or in streaks, and microscopic examination shows an extreme degree of fatty granular change.
Thus jaundice is present in an unusually large proportion of the cases attended with marked enlargement and tenderness of the liver and spleen, whether vomiting is also present in extreme degree or not.
With respect to the terrestrial productions which lived during the Secondary and Palaeozoic periods, it is superfluous to state that our evidence is fragmentary in an extreme degree.
As, upon the stage of a theatre, the farce follows the grand melodrama, this tragic scene was succeeded by an incident ludicrous to an extreme degree.
She was at times merry to an extreme degree; though her mirth appeared to me a little artificial, and often ended abruptly.
The former cases can best be observed with domesticated or confined birds; but these are often pampered by high feeding, and sometimes have their instincts vitiated to an extreme degree.
That they are not due to the direct and definite action of the conditions of life, we may feel assured, because the females have been exposed to the same conditions, and yet often differ from the males to an extreme degree.
The small size of the males in comparison with the females (a peculiarity which is sometimes carried to an extreme degree), and their widely different appearance, may account in some instances for their rarity in collections.
With many gallinaceous species the sexes differ to an extreme degree, as with the peacock, pheasant, and fowl, whilst with other species there has been a partial or even complete transference of character from the male to the female.
With respect to the terrestrial productions which lived during the Secondary and Palæozoic periods, it is superfluous to state that our evidence from fossil remains is fragmentary in an extreme degree.
Many American Indians are known to admire a head flattened to such an extreme degree as to appear to us like that of an idiot.
Such cases can best be observed with domesticated or confined birds; but these are often pampered by high feeding, and sometimes have their instincts vitiated to an extreme degree.
Although the grandchildren and succeeding generations of cross-bred animals are generally variable in an extreme degree, some curious exceptions to the rule have been observed, both with crossed races and species.
But I am far from wishing to deny that there exists, independently of any incipient sterility, an antagonism between the two forms of reproduction, namely, by seed and by buds, when either is carried to an extreme degree.
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