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That the reptiles were evolved from the Amphibia, and more specifically from that order known as the Temnospondyli, seems now assured. The earliest as also the most primitive reptiles that we know belong to the order called the Cotylosauria. With the exception of Eosauravus from the middle Pennsylvanian of Ohio, of which, unfortunately, the skull is unknown, our knowledge of them goes no further back than the late Carboniferous and early Permian. At that time there was a considerable diversity of known forms, belonging to at least four well-differentiated groups and twenty or more families; from which we may very properly conclude that their earliest ancestors, the beginning of their stock, lived much earlier, certainly at the beginning of the Upper Carboniferous, and very probably in Lower Carboniferous times. We therefore never can expect to find in the rocks of the Permian any real connecting link between the two classes.
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The current Proofread of the Month is Recollections of Full Years (1914) by Helen Herron Taft. Recent collaborations: The Heart of Jainism, The Silent Prince, A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, The Tower, Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, The Story of the Flute, The Art of Kissing, Frenzied Fiction, Napoleon, Doom of the Great City |
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Poetry from ancient and medieval to romantic and modern, in love and war
Texts, laws, constitutions of many countries
Documents from US history, including Revolution and Civil War
US law: Supreme Court decisions, government documents, presidential addresses
General literature: modern novels and short stories, horror stories, children’s literature, science fiction, drama
Original, encyclopedic, popular articles on relativity, physics, biology, and other sciences