All the species are extinct; but about one-half of the genera are represented by living forms.
Carboniferous deposits, and have given occasion to an abundance of research and speculation.
Allied to the Crinoids are the singular creatures which are known as Cystideans (fig.
Thus, on the theory of descent with modification, the main facts with respect to the mutual affinities of the extinct forms of life to each other and to living forms, seem to me explained in a satisfactory manner.
During each of these years, {288} over the whole world, the land and the water has been peopled by hosts of living forms.
On the Affinities of extinct Species to each other, and to living forms.
Secondly, he proved that these germs were competent to give rise to living forms by simply sowing them in a solution fitted for their development.
CCXX It remains yet in the order of logic, though not of history, to show that among these solid destructible particles there really do exist germs capable of giving rise to the development of living forms in suitable menstrua.
CCV Once more, an invariably-recurring lesson of geological history, at whatever point its study is taken up: the lesson of the almost infinite slowness of the modification of living forms.
During each of these years, over the whole world, the land and the water has been peopled by hosts of living forms.
This is why the idea of reading in a present state of the material universe the future of living forms, and of unfolding now their history yet to come, involves a veritable absurdity.
Indeed, the modalities of creative action, in so far as it is still going on in the organization of living forms, are much simplified when they are taken in this way.
Living forms are, by their very definition, forms that are able to live.
Successive Creations and Extinctions of living Forms, and their contemporaneous Distribution.
These singular fish have the skin smooth and in living forms almost or quite scaleless.
The mouth inliving forms is suctorial and is not supported by jaws.
The notochord in living forms is unsegmented, but segmented cartilaginous neural arches are present in some cases.
The increasing complexity of living forms is not the result of the movements of matter, or of chemical-physical laws, but of an opposition, successful in a unique degree in men, to the imprisoning and entangling forces of matter.
Again, in opposition to finalism he urges the variety of living forms.
Mechanical conceptions are inapplicable to living beings, because of the irreversibility of the movements of living forms; and (3) the mechanical theory is negatived by the facts of the psychophysical connection.
Some fossil forms from remote periods show exactly the same structure as living forms to-day.
The problem here offers itself more distinctly than in any other group of living forms, because it presents an alternative without a third possibility.
Something which we call life lifts matter up, in opposition to gravity, into thousands of living forms.
The line between living forms and non-living forms is being set back further and further by science.
Besides the vital action observable in the growth and development of plants, we know, of course, that plants sicken and die, and manifest all other attributes of living forms.
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