Darwin And Modern Science Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth
Darwin And Modern Science Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth
Cambridge Philosophical Society
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The Eocene and Oligocene beds of the Fayoum show us that the region sought for is Africa, and that the elephants form just such a series of gradual modifications as we have found among other hoofed animals. The 1 C. W. Andrews, "On the Evolution of the Proboscidea, " Phil. Trans. Eoy. Soc. London, Vol. 196, 1904, p. 99. The Origin of Whales and Carnivores 195 later steps of the transformation, by which the mastodons lost their lower tusks, and their relatively small and simple grinding teeth ac...quired the great size and highly complex structure of the true elephants, may be followed in the uppermost Miocene and Pliocene fossils of India and southern Europe. Egypt has also of late furnished some very welcome material which contributes to the solution of another unsolved problem which had quite eluded research, the origin of the whales. The toothed- whales may be traced back in several more or less parallel lines as far as the lower Miocene, but their predecessors in the Oligocene are still so incompletely known that safe conclusions can hardly be drawn from them.
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