Identifier: cu31924089940419 (find matches)
Title: The history of creation; or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929 Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919. Natürliche schopfungsgeschichte English
Subjects: Evolution Heredity Human beings
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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structureas the articulated arm of a Star-fish, and evidently possesseda hard coat of mail, a much denser, more solid cutaneousskeleton than other worms in general. The number ofbody-segments, or metamera, is very considerable, so thatthe worms, although no more than a quarter or half aninch in breadth, attained a length of from two to three feet.The excellently preserved impressions, especially those ofthe Phyllodocites thuringiaeus and Crossopodia Hcmici, areso like the arms of many Star-fish (Colastra) that theirtrue blood relationship seems very probable. This primae-val gioup of worms, which are most probably the ancestorsof Star-fish, I call Mailed worms (Phracthelminthes, p. 150.) The three other classes of Echinoderma evidently aroseat a later period out of the class of Sea-stars which havemost faithfully retained the original form of the stellate * Ucbor ein Aequivaleut der takonisoliea ScMefer Nordamerikaa inDeutscbland. PI. viii. STAE FISHES. FIRST GENERATION. WORM PERSON.
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PI. ix. STAR FISHES. SECOND GENERATION. WORM STOCK.

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