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  • He made, in fact, the geographical position a necessary part of the whole idea of a species or of a group, and so introduced a conception which has become a permanent part of zooelogical science.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • With regard to the number and limits of the zooelogical regions into which the world may be divided, Huxley raised a number of problems which have not yet reached a full solution.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • While he assisted in the routine work of determining the zooelogical position of the fossils sent in to the museum by the Survey, he carried investigations much farther than the duties of the post required when interesting zooelogical problems arose.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • A great bulk of his zooelogical work, however, related to the group of back-boned animals.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • Huxley extended the use of the word individual so as to include as a single zooelogical individual the whole set of creatures cohering in chains or breaking apart, which had been produced by budding from the product of a single egg-cell.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • More than that, the points insisted on in the essay as being sufficient for the purpose of separating man in zooelogical classification were elevated into a reason against descent.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • Having explained the general system of zooelogical classification, he tried to dispel preliminary prejudice by inducing his readers or bearers to take an outside view of themselves.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • Even before the publication of The Origin of Species there was a considerable nervousness in the minds of the more orthodox as to discussions on the position of the human species in zooelogical classification.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • Different names had been given to the two forms, but Huxley declared that neither form was a true zooelogical individual; they were only parts of individuals or organs, and the true individual was the complete cycle involving both forms.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • Like all other zooelogical ideas, this has been considerably altered by the conception of evolution.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

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