Excerpt from The Survey of Western Palestine, 1884: The Fauna and Flora of Palestine From this analysis it is evident that the herpetological fauna presents fewer anomalies than the other classes. But snakes, in particular, are more limited to the original locality of the individual. In these cases the agencies are wanting by which a species is rapidly spread over a larger portion of the globe in course of time, thus becoming mixed with foreign forms; and the groups, like individuals, are more stationary. Besides, this ...
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Excerpt from The Survey of Western Palestine, 1884: The Fauna and Flora of Palestine From this analysis it is evident that the herpetological fauna presents fewer anomalies than the other classes. But snakes, in particular, are more limited to the original locality of the individual. In these cases the agencies are wanting by which a species is rapidly spread over a larger portion of the globe in course of time, thus becoming mixed with foreign forms; and the groups, like individuals, are more stationary. Besides, this class of life is more susceptible of climatic changes than any other, and if any period of excessive cold, like the glacial epoch, had passed over the country, the reptiles would be the first to succumb, without any chance of their recovering their ground during subsequent modifications of the temperature. Yet even here we can clearly trace anomalies in the distribution, corresponding to the anomalies already mentioned, and to which we do not elsewhere find a parallel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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