Mr. Darwin himself says he looks upon man's convictions as of no value, because they are the convictions of a mind derived from the mind of lower animals; nor can one blame him for being skeptical.
Mr. Darwin himself was troubled about the value of his own convictions, on the ground that his mind was evolved from that of lower animals.
The whole substance in man actually appears hypertrophied when compared with that of lower animals.
The early differentiation of this part of the cerebro-spinal axis is related to the manifestations of rhythmic movements in the embryo and their predominant importance in lower animals.
These bodies in the human cortex represent imperfectly developed nerve cells and are normally found in the cortex of lower animals.
Let us now turn to the other picture--that presented by the theory of struggle for existence and derivation from lower animals.
Contrivance and inventive power, enabling him to utilise the objects and forces of nature, replace in him the material powers bestowed on lower animals.
In lower animals, the uterus is often divided into two long segments which afford room for the development of a number of young at once.
This fact is particularly manifest in lower animals.
Instead of restricting the reader's attention rigidly to the sexual function in man, his mind is diverted by frequent references to corresponding functions in lower animals and in the vegetable kingdom.
The comparative study of the organs which are rudimentary in man and more or less well developed in lower animals is of fundamental importance in the problem of our origin.
Loss of individuality in the associations of lower animals.
Fortunately, however, such sex-linkage also occurs in lower animals and we are able therefore to verify and extend our observations by direct experiments in breeding.
Perhaps this may best be done by reviewing the argument of Haeckel in his work on the evolution of man--one of the ablest, and at the same time most thorough, expositions of monistic evolution as applied tolower animals and to men.
Having established the fact of intracellular digestion in lower animals, he extended it to certain cells of the higher animals; thus his phagocyte theory was born.
He therefore sought to study them in lower animals, whose simple structure made the observation easier.
But that man as a thinking being has descended from the lower animals is a different matter, concerning which opinion is by no means in unison.
Again, each tribe of lower animals is apt to fall into a fixed circle of life acts, to become so closely adapted to some situation or condition that any change of habits would be likely to prove detrimental.
No more convincing evidence that man gained his body through descent from thelower animals could be asked for than the survival in the human brain of this wonderfully significant remnant of a formerly useful organ.
What we have excellent reason to feel assured of is that man has descended from the lower animals, and in all probability from an ape-like ancestor.
It is not through superior physique, but by superior ability to direct the activities of his body, that man excels in the struggle for existence with the lower animals.
Jellyfish and worms and naked mollusks are examples of the numerous orders of lower animals having no hard parts to be preserved, and so all or nearly all of the extinct species belonging to these groups can never be known.
When the several organic systems of the human body were compared with those of the apes and of lower animals, their evolution was proved as far as the purely physical and material characteristics were concerned.
The theory of Evolution says that man did not come into existence all of a sudden, but is related to lower animals and to plants, either directly or indirectly.
Each of these is to be found in lower animals as well as in human beings, the difference being only in degree and not in kind.
It is for this reason we do not find expressions of moral and spiritual nature in lower animals or in those human beings who live like them.
For these qualities are not to be found in lower animals, although the struggle for existence is there.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lower animals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
