A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 4

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

IV THE AGE OF FISHES In the days when the world was supposed to have endured for only a few thousand years, it was supposed that the different species of plants and animals were fixed and final; they had ...Read Morebeen created exactly as they are to-day, each species by itself. But as men began to discover and study the Record of the Rocks this belief gave place to the suspicion that many species had changed and developed slowly through the course of ages, and this again expanded into a belief in what is called Organic Evolution, a belief that Read Less