 | 1910 - 700 strani
...sweet potato, banana, and other domesticated plants which were widely distributed in prehistoric times. The theory that it has been disseminated by ocean currents is gratuitous, unproved, and improbable. The development of distinct varieties of the coconut has not been confined to the Polynesian and Malayan... | |
 | 1911 - 630 strani
...potato, banana, and other domesticated plants which •were widely distributed in prehistoric times. The theory that it has been disseminated by ocean currents is gratuitous, unproved, and improbable. The development of distinct varieties of the coconut has not been confined to the Polynesian and Malayan... | |
 | Forest Buffen Harkness Brown - 1922 - 166 strani
...palms thrive and multiply, where we find old palms surrounded by flourishing young ones, growing [16] spontaneously, without aid of man, but no such instance...Furthermore on the volcanic island of Krakatau (5, p. 30) the coconut appeared thirteen years after the destruction of all life on the island, on the shore,... | |
 | United States National Museum. National Herbarium - 1910 - 128 strani
...sweet potato, banana, and other domesticated plants which were widely distributed in prehistoric times. The theory that it has been disseminated by ocean currents is gratuitous, unproved, and improbable. The development of distinct varieties of the coconut has not been confined to the Polynesian and Malayan... | |
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The theory that it has been disseminated by ocean currents is gratuitous, unproved, and improbable." Unfortunately, each of the above statements which underlie Cook's whole hypothesis, and which seem insufficiently substantiated, is contradicted. Guppy... 