Pteraspis

He could detect no more evolution in life since the Pteraspis than he could detect it in architecture since the Abbey.

[evolution] and its shoddy tactics 2009

He could detect no more evolution in life since the Pteraspis than he could detect it in architecture since the Abbey.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Whatever else stops, the woman must go on reproducing, as she did in the Siluria of Pteraspis; sex is a vital condition, and race only a local one.

Hullabaloo 2006

Such men were forces of nature, energies of the prime, like the Pteraspis, but they made short work of scholars.

Hullabaloo 2006

Neither in the Limulus nor in the Terebratula, nor in the Cestracion Philippi, any more than in the Pteraspis, could one conceive an ancestor, but, if one must, the choice mattered little.

Darwinism (1867–1868) 1918

Whatever else stops, the woman must go on reproducing, as she did in the Siluria of Pteraspis; sex is a vital condition, and race only a local one.

Vis Inertiae (1903) 1918

Friends are born in archaic horizons; they were shaped with the Pteraspis in Siluria; they have nothing to do with the accident of space.

Failure (1871) 1918

As he lay on Wenlock Edge, with the sheep nibbling the grass close about him as they or their betters had nibbled the grass, —or whatever there was to nibble, —in the Silurian kingdom of Pteraspis, he seemed to have fallen on an evolution far more wonderful than that of fishes.

Darwinism (1867–1868) 1918

The Pteraspis grins horribly from the closed entrance.

Failure (1871) 1918

At all events, it did not enter into the problem of Pteraspis, for it was quite certain that no complete proof of Natural Selection had occurred back to the time of Pteraspis, and that before Pteraspis was eternal void.

Darwinism (1867–1868) 1918