As such it does not deal with the origin of life, but it begins with life, and concerns itself with the evolution of living things.
Thus began the process of organic evolution--the natural history of living things--with which we are concerned in this and later addresses.
Those of the first part deal with matters of definition, with the essential characteristics of living things, and, at greater length, with the evidences of organic evolution.
These tiny Things--living Things--present to the sight merely a tiny speck of jelly, without organs of any kind.
At any rate, crystals are born and grow like living things.
This tiny glue-drop performs virtually the same life functions as do the higher complex forms of living things.
And by this arrangement are generations of living things produced; and in like manner, too, are tempests and meteors engendered by the circular motion of the sun.
Recent centuries have paid more attention to living things than to any other objects in nature.
Biology is simply the study of living things; and living nature has been studied as long as mankind has studied anything.
The reign of law, which was claiming that all nature's phenomena are the result of natural rather than supernatural powers, demanded some explanation of the origin of living things.
In another sense it is proper and belongs to living things; in which sense it signifies the origin of a living being from a conjoined living principle; and this is properly called birth.
So in living things, which proceed from potential to actual life, such as men and animals, generation includes both these kinds of generation.
For in this lower world there are four kinds of living things.
The more they were examined the more apparent it became that by means of the facts of variation a new light was obtained on the physiological composition and capabilities of living things.
The specific diversity of living thingsis thus regarded as being something quite different in nature from the specific diversity of inorganic substances.
Our knowledge of the nature and properties of living things is far too meagre to justify any such attempts.
Heredity and adaptation are, in fact, the two constructive physiological functions of living things; unless we understand these properly we can make no headway in the study of evolution.
Not a word was ever said about the earlier efforts to understand the formation of living things, nor about Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique which had made a fresh attack on the problem in 1809.
In the sixth edition my father also referred to the "direct action of the conditions of life" as a subordinate cause of modification in living things: On this subject he wrote to Dr.
This order cannot by the nature of the case be dependent on Natural Selection for its existence, but must be a consequence of the fundamental chemical and physical nature of living things.
The geometrical symmetry of living things is the key to a knowledge of their regularity, and the forces which cause it.
It does not tell him, even that there are living inhabitants in the regions which it reveals; and, consequently, it does not disclose any of those examples of design which belong to the structure of living things.
These limestones are examples of rocks which are said to be of organic origin, that is to say, they are formed by living things.
We have seen that the whole mass of the chalk is made up mainly of the remains of living things,--mostly of the microscopic foraminifera.
All this mass of coral is formed by living things,--polyps they are called.
So that by studying the succession of life during this period we may learn much about the gradual change of life on the earth, and the evolution of living things.
Iron is not particularly abundant in living things, and we find that the body is thrifty with regard to it.
Of course the huge landmarks, cities, lakes, and rivers, have been in view for a long while, and now the explorers are on the lookout for signs of living things.
These rocks, at one time known as Azoic, being supposed destitute of all remains of living things, but now more properly Eozoic, are those in which the first bright streaks of the dawn of life make their appearance.
Only by our basket suddenly becoming an animal or a plant; for growth belongs to living things alone.
There is a certain order in the succession of living things as they came, but what caused that order is the very question at issue.
Third, all this when compared with the geologic record, and the present orders of living things as classified, presents the full succession of the forms of life, the one supplying what the other lacks.
For these do enter into the substance which forms the bodies of living things.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
