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Colouration in animals and plants (1886)

Tylor, Alfred, 1824-1884, Skertchly, Sydney B. J · London, Alabaster, Passmore · leaf 24

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. Seeing, then, how infinitely varied is colouration, and howpotently selection has modified it, the (picstion maybe asked, Is * Wttllnoc, Tropical Nature, p. 20(). f Op. cit., p. 206. Introduction. 7 it possible to fiiul any general system or law which has determinedthe main plan of decoration,… … CHAPTER II. Inherited Memory. MANY of our observations seemed to suggest a quasi-intelligentaction on the part of the beings under examination; and wewere led, early in the course of our studies, to adopt provisionally thehypothesis that memory was inherited—that the whole was con-sequently wiser…

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