The Winners in Life’s Race

About this eBook

Author

Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929

Title

The winners in life's race : Or, the great backboned family

Original Publication

New York: Appleton and Company, 1883.

Credits

Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Vertebrates -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72898

Release Date

February 8, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WINNERS IN LIFE’S RACE
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. THE THRESHOLD OF BACKBONED LIFE.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. HOW THE QUAINT OLD FISHES OF ANCIENT TIMES HAVE LIVED ON INTO OUR DAY.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. THE BONY FISH, AND HOW THEY HAVE SPREAD OVER SEA AND LAKE AND RIVER
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. HOW THE BACKBONED ANIMALS PASS FROM WATER-BREATHING TO AIR-BREATHING, AND FIND THEIR WAY OUT UPON THE LAND.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. THE COLD-BLOODED AIR-BREATHERS OF THE GLOBE IN TIMES BOTH PAST AND PRESENT.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE FEATHERED CONQUERORS OF THE AIR. Part I. — Their Wanderings over Sea and Marsh, Desert and Plain.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE FEATHERED CONQUERORS OF THE AIR. Part II. — From Running to Flying: From Mound Laying to Nest Building: From Cry to Song.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. THE MAMMALIA OR MILK-GIVERS. The Simplest Suckling Mother, the Active Pouch-bearers, and the Imperfect-Toothed Animals.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. FROM THE LOWER AND SMALLER MILK-GIVERS WHICH FIND SAFETY IN CONCEALMENT, TO THE INTELLIGENT APES AND MONKEYS.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE LARGE MILK-GIVERS WHICH HAVE CONQUERED THE WORLD BY STRENGTH AND INTELLIGENCE.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. HOW THE BACKBONED ANIMALS HAVE RETURNED TO THE WATER, AND LARGE MILK-GIVERS IMITATE THE FISH.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF BACKBONED LIFE. — FOOTNOTES
17. 17.INDEX. — WORKS OF ARABELLA B. BUCKLEY. — Transcriber’s Notes

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