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Excerpt from Recherches sur la Faune des R'gions Australes
Les caract'res d'une race sont d'termin's par la r'sultante de deux forces dont les directions peuvent 'tre parall'les et semblables ou divergentes et m'me oppos'es. L'une de ces l'erees est 1 atavisme, eu tendance de l''tre en voie de develop pement r'aliser les formes organiques de ses anc'tres, en devenir l'image fid'le (q). L'autre est la facult' d'adaptation biologique, e'est--dire la tendance de l''tre vivant se medi ller lorsque les conditions auxquelles il est soumis viennent changer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
