A first book in organic evolution / by D. Kerfoot Shute.

Date:
1899
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Credit: A first book in organic evolution / by D. Kerfoot Shute. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mi-cro-ceph-a'li-a [Gr. mikrokephalos, small-headed.] Imper- fect development of the cranium. Mi-cren-ceph-a'li-a [Gr. mikros, small; enkephalos, brain.] Small-brained. Mi'cro-cosm [Gr. ?nikros, small; kosmos, world.] Micro-gro'mi-a so-ci-al'is [Gr. mikros, small; gromia; Lat. socialis <socius, companion.] Mi-cro-les'tes Mi'das. A wealthy king of Phrygia. Mi-o-hip'pus [Miocene; Gr. hippos, horse.] Mi'o-cene [Gr. meion, less; kainos, recent.] Mi-to'sis [Gr. mitus, thread.] Mol-lus'ca [Lat. mollis, soft.] Mon-o-cot-y-le'don-es [Gr. monos, single; kotyledon, cup- shaped [cavity. ] A group of flowering plants in which the first leaves of the embryo are alternate, for which reason they are said to have one seed-leaf or cotyledon. Mon-o-del'phi-a [Gr. monos, single; delphys, womb.] A sub- class of mammals having a single vagina and uterus; embryo attached by a placenta; brain has a corpus callosum. Includes all animals above Monotremes and Marsupials. Mon'o-tremes [Gr. monos, single; trema, hole.] An order of ornithodelphians. M or'u-la [Lat. dim. of morutn, mulberry.] Mul-ti-tu-ber-cu-la'ta [Lat multus, many; tuberculum, tubercle.] My-ce'tes [Gr. myketes, bellower.] Myr-i-ap'o-da [Gr. myrios, numberless; pous, foot.] Insects with numerous pairs of legs, as centipedes. Nau'ti-loids [Gr. naulilos, sailor; eidos, like.] A group of cephalopods. Nau'ti-lus [Gr. nautilos, sailor.] A cephalopod. Nem-a-thel-min'thes [Gr. nemo., thread; helmins, worm.] Nem-er-ti'na [Gr. nemertes, unerring.] Worms with skin cili- ated, proboscis retractile, and nervous, muscular, and vascu- lar systems characteristically developed. Ne-o-lith'ic [Gr. neos, new; lit ho s, stone.] Noc-ti-lu'ca mi-li-a'ris [Lat. no.x, night; luceo, shine; mili- ar ius, <milium, millet.] No'to-chord [ Gr. notos, the back; chorda, a chord.] A carti- laginous rod found in the young chordate embryo in a situ-